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, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockannaskeagh Forts, hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36305, -8.57605
- SMR number
- LI047-075002-
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 220m S of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Tobernea East. Possible ringfort (LI047-075001-) lies to immediate W. Annotated ‘Knockannaskeagh forts’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as one of two circular enclosures located either side of a field boundary. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised semi-circular shaped area (dims. c. 15m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) defined by a scarp from SW-W-NE, defined by a curving field boundary from S-W-NE. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Scrub-covered earthwork possibly visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
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.