Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydoole (Kenry By., Ballynacurriga ED), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydoole (Kenry By., Ballynacurriga ED)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.66167, -8.85064
- SMR number
- LI003-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on N-facing slope below brow of hillock. Roughly circular area (32.5m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.15m). Bank roughly faced with loose stones SW->N. Two-phase linear wall (H 1.9m), with stepped external profile, runs along line of enclosing bank NE->E for c. 5.2m. Gap (Wth 2.2m) in bank at ESE. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to N; there is a large boulder (H 1.2m; 1.9m E-W; 1m N-S) at N verge. Deciduous trees grow along bank.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.