Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Curraghkilbran, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghkilbran
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36880, -8.30076
- SMR number
- LI049-202----
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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 500m W of the River Aherlow that marks the townland boundary with Lyre and 200m E of townland boundary with Ballyfauskeen. Possible ringfort (LI049-201----) lies 205m to SW. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped raised area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp. Identified as a destroyed ringfort (Site 3/7) on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark 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: 3 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.