Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keeloges (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keeloges (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39213, -8.28362
- SMR number
- LI049-160----
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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, immediately E of townland boundary with Ardrahin. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at W by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 25m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from NW-N-E-S-SW reduced to a scarp from SW-W, with external fosse. Possible entrance gap at SW. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.