Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyrune, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrune
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61820, -8.79809
- SMR number
- LI012-038----
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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, on break in ENE-facing slope, in area of rock outcrop. Circular area (31.7m N-S; 32.3m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) NNW->SSW and defined by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 4m) SSW->NNW. Bank, best preserved SE->SSW, dips at ESE (Wth 2.6m). Enclosure cut by field wall (H 1.5m; Wth 0.65m) on N-S axis separating E third of interior. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently towards SE, with exposed limestone bedrock near N verge.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.