Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynacarriga, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarriga
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.65128, -8.81438
- SMR number
- LI004-013----
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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 rough pasture, atop limestone hillock. Circular area (22.9m N-S; 23.2m E-W) enclosed by sod covered stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.32m). Bank best preserved ESE->NNE, becomes scarp-like NNE->ESE (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.8m). Interior, with outcropping limestone, is noticeably lower in E third.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.