Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cullane Middle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullane Middle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnakirka, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lios na Circe, Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.33853, -8.36348
- SMR number
- LI057-033----
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 290m E of Ahnalushnia Stream that marks the townland boundary with Kilgarriff. Annotated ‘Lissanakirka’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown as a circular enclosure. It is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 31m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with traces of possible external fosse 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: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.