Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilglass, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilglass
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.30117, -8.28811
- SMR number
- LI057-063----
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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 50m E of a stream and 100m S of the townland boundary with Coolnamohoge. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. 31m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from SW-N-SE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. A disused lime-kiln is shown 50m to SW on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Outline of monument overgrown with trees is visible 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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.