Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynahallee, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahallee
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.62372, -8.83776
- SMR number
- LI012-022----
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 ridge. Roughly circular area (29.5m N-S; 32.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 2m). Bank (int. H 1.3m ext. H 32.5m), best preserved NW->SE, becomes scarp-like at S (H 0.65m; Wth 4m). Fosse, best preserved SE->SSW, shallows out at SSW where machinery was used to clear vegetation overgrowth. Field boundary runs along external top edge of fosse SW->NW, so that enclosure located in NW corner of field; enclosing element masked by dense overgrowth of briars and thorn SW->NW. Causeway entrance (Wth 3.6m) at E. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down very gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.