Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyveloge, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveloge
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockanabausa Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockanabausa Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.61418, -8.70238
- SMR number
- LI012-055----
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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 slight NE-facing slope, cashel (LI012-141----) immediately to NE. Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 29m N-S) enclosed by a stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.85m; base Wth 1.23m). The interior is undulating with rubble from field clearance, bank disturbed at SW. Annotated 'Knockanabausa Fort' on both the 1840 OS 6-inch map and the 1897 OS 25-inch map. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as an oval shaped area enclosed by a bank, with trees planted in the interior with post-1700 field boundary intersects the monument at S and ESE. Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 shows the monument heavily overgrown with trees.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.