Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Killeline, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeline
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44354, -9.04869
- SMR number
- LI036-078----
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 grounds of golf course, within small coniferous grove to N of golf green and on level ground. Roughly circular area (24.3m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by a scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2.6m), with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.85m) NE->SE. Interior level. Northern three-quarters of site is covered by coniferous trees, rest is under grass. Excavation by Lar Dunne (2003, 312) concluded that this feature is a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.