Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynash (clare), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynash (clare)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60634, -9.13924
- SMR number
- LI009-011----
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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
Atop low rise, in undulating pasture. Formerly embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) now truncated on W and S sides by field boundaries; enclosing earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.3m) survives NW->SE, with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.2m; Wth 3.2m) NE->ESE. Breaks in inner bank at SE (Wth 2m) and N (Wth 2m). Entire site is overgrown by trees and bushes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.