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
- 52.63075, -8.87489
- SMR number
- LI011-129----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, atop hill, in area of outcropping limestone. Oval area (38m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m). Bank, best preserved SW->E, partially incorporates bedrock outcrops elsewhere. It is covered by briars and bushes W->N. Possible entrance (Wth 7m) E->SSE where bank lowers. Seam of limestone bedrock (H c. 0.6m), on rough N-S axis, cuts across interior as chord c. 9m from W edge. Otherwise interior level and under rough pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 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.