Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glenbevan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenbevan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.49410, -8.68116
- SMR number
- LI031-083----
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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 flat pasture, 15m NE of disused railway and 120m W of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Ballyculleen. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank with external fosse. The National Museum of Ireland Topographical files recorded the discovery of a ‘burial [LI031-228----] of extended skeleton in a ringfort known as Kyle in the 1940’s’ (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 456). Monument visible as circular-shaped enclosure overgrown with trees on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 March 2021
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.