Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilmihil (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmihil (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.36771, -8.55597
- SMR number
- LI047-099----
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 reclaimed pasture 170m W of the townland boundary with Ballygillane. Ringfort (LI048-045----) lies 100m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 47m) defined by a fosse from NW-E-SW with field boundary elsewhere on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 24 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.