Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilfinny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfinny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.50488, -8.79191
- SMR number
- LI030-049----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, with surface outcropping of limestone, atop low hill. Circular area (22m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by denuded earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m), best preserved N->SSW. Interior, under pasture with limestone outcrops, slopes down gently to E; just S-of-centre is raised sub-circular area (c. 5m E-W; c. 6m N-S; max. H 0.4m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.