Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacourty (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty (Kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.64329, -8.93084
- SMR number
- LI011-013----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop ridge with panoramic views over surrounding countryside. Circular area (28.9m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m). Inner bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved NW->E, becomes scarp-like E->S. Outer bank (int. H 2.1m; ext. H 0.9m) best preserved at N. Gaps in outer bank at SE (Wth 2.1m) and S (Wth 1m). Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, slopes down gently to S.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.