Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garranekeagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranekeagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockannaskeagh Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockannaskeagh Forts - hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36309, -8.57658
- SMR number
- LI047-075001-
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 200m S of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Tobernea East. Possible ringfort (LI047-075002-) lies to immediate E. Annotated 'Knockannaskeagh forts' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as one of two circular-shaped earthworks enclosures located either side of a field boundary. Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from NW-E-S. Levelled earthwork visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 24m N-S; 24m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.