Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbeg East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.49686, -8.82557
- SMR number
- LI030-035----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.3m) with external waterlogged fosse (Wth 4m); running outside fosse and concentric with it is earthen field boundary (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m). Gap through both bank and field boundary at E (Wth 1.7m) and gap across inner bank at NNW (Wth 3.2m). Interior, in rough grazing, slopes down gently to N.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.