Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymartin (kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin (kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.65334, -8.88301
- SMR number
- LI003-012----
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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, in low-lying marshy area. Circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge, with two concentric outer earthen banks, with two intervening and an external fosse. Scarp (H 0.75m; Wth 3.9m) best preserved along S arc. Bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m), heavily masked by overgrowth at NE, is much denuded at NW. Break (Wth 4m) in outer bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. h 1.25m) at NW, matched by causeway across middle fosse and shallowing of inner fosse. Outer bank and fosse do not survive NW->NNE where field boundary cuts through middle fosse and skirts around inner bank. Inner fosse (Wth1.1m) best preserved at S. Middle (Wth 2.65m) and outer (Wth 2.2m) fosses waterlogged, with middle fosse widening at W (Wth 4m). Interior, under pasture, dips down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Damunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.