Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvaddock, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvaddock
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.63311, -8.95675
- SMR number
- LI011-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, atop low hill. Roughly circular area (32m N-S; 31.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved SSW->W and NNW->NE. Mature deciduous trees grow along bank with considerable root disturbance of bank NE->S. Farm passage skirts around enclosure E->S. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NE.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.