Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyengland Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyengland Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60219, -8.93777
- SMR number
- LI011-099----
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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 hill. Circular area (35.6m N-S; 36.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m), best preserved N->ENE. Mortared stone wall (H 1.6m) runs around external base of bank NW->SE. Avenue which led to Stewick House (now in ruins) skirts around side of enclosure N->E. Avenue leading to modern dwelling branches off from former avenue at N and skirts around enclosure to NW, where dwelling house and garden lie immediately W of enclosure. An oil tank has been erected atop bank/wall at NNE. Mature beech trees grow along top of bank. Level interior, under pasture; slight dip in NE quadrant immediately behind oil tank.
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.