Enclosure in Rawleystown, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Fort described in 1943 as following; 'The first edition of the O.S. Map shows a fort beside the road from Herbertstown to Limerick. The fort is not shown on the edition of 1927. On the ground there is now no trace of it and no one can remember its existence' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 183). The outline of the monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Depicted as a quarry or pond feature on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and not depicted as an antiquity Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 February 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI023-079

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Martin Richard Phelan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
deiseal, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
David Hawgood, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ruhrfisch, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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