Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyshonickbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshonickbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.62154, -8.87102
- SMR number
- LI011-026----
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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 low-lying pasture, near foot of W-facing hill-slope, in area of outcropping limestone densely covered with briars and bracken. Oval area (22m N-S; 27.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.6m) W->SSE and defined by scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1m) SSE->W. Interior surface uneven with bedrock outcropping in places; linear depression (D 0.4m; Wth 1.3m), on rough E-W axis, near S edge.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.