What is recorded here
Killeany Beg is an oval earthen ringfort in County Limerick, Ireland, where a low bank and shallow ditch still mark a home built before written memory. Cattle graze above the buried floor, unaware that people once drew a boundary around their own lives and called the inside theirs. The fairies may have taken the name, but the shape belongs to human hands: a small place made visible against the field.
In gently undulating pasture. Oval area (21.5m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.65m), with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.35m) SE->NNE, and low broad counterscarp bank at SW and SE (H 0.15m; Wth 3m). Interior slopes down gently towards centre and is under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
TobercloonaghSpring · 791 yd
Kyle Burial GroundBurial ground · 1323 yd
Church in Flean MoreChurch · 1537 yd
Prospect HillMountain / peak · 1.4 mi
Scoil Naomh Mhuireschool · 1.5 mi
Castle (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 2.3 mi
Bawn in Killacolla (barker)Bawn · 2.3 mi
Mountshannon WoodWood · 3.5 mi
Mountshannon PointHeadland · 3.5 mi
Killanna PointHeadland · 4.2 mi
Mountshannon EstateHeritage attraction · 4.5 mi