Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacanearla North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacanearla North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.48231, -8.78606
- SMR number
- LI030-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, on break in N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38.5m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.2m) ESE->NNW, with external fosse (D 0.95m; Wth 2.6m) ESE->S, and defined by a scarped edge (H 1.75m; Wth 3.8m) NNW->ESE. Causeway entrance (Wth 5.9m) at ESE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E. Just W-of-centre is deciduous tree around base of which is a dump of field-clearance stones. Field boundaries, shown abutting enclosure at SE and NW on 1924 OS 6-inch map, have been removed; this probably accounts for dumps of earthen material immediately outside enclosure to W and NW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.