Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbreedy (coshma By., Rockhill Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreedy (coshma By., Rockhill Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.43886, -8.70965
- SMR number
- LI038-091----
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, in SW corner of field, enclosures (LI038-097/098----) lie 100m to the E and 180m to the SW respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank with wide gap (Wth c. 17m) at E and smaller gap (Wth c. 5m) at W on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of cropmark of fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 April 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.