Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacourty (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty (Kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.64768, -8.93414
- SMR number
- LI003-004----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (40.7m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2.05m) with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.5m). Bank best preserved SW->NNW, becomes scarp-like NE->S. A dry-stone field wall cuts across fosse and runs along top of bank NNW->NE. Fosse best preserved along W arc, is much silted up elsewhere; low counterscarp earth-and-stone bank (ext. H 0.3m) SW->NNW. Causeway entrance (Wth 3.75m) at SSW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E; faint cultivation ridges evident on rough N-S axis.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.