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 (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43551, -8.69716
- SMR number
- LI039-052----
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, 32m NW of townland boundary with Cappanafaraha and enclosure (LI039-053----) lies 150m to SE. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 26m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a bank with external fosse incorporated into post-1700 field boundary from SSE-S-W. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of '4 ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW' of the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 271). Monument overgrown with trees visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 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.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.