Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullerboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullerboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.47108, -8.64221
- SMR number
- LI039-016----
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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, 96m W of townland boundary with Drombeg. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a scarp with external fosse, intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Monument visible as circular shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank, overgrown fosse from N-E-S-SW and cropmark of levelled fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Cropmark of fosse from SW-W-NW also visible running NW-SE on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.