Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacow, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacow
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.48652, -8.79943
- SMR number
- LI030-169----
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 N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (42m N-S; 40m SE-NW) defined W->SW by scarped edge (H 1.3m; Wth 7.1m) with external fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.3m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.3m). Scarp and fosse most pronounced on N side. Enclosing element has been levelled SW->W. Dry-stone field boundary overlies counterscarp bank SSE->SSW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 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.