TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - cashel

Ballyveloge, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyveloge, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyveloge
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Dotted outline
Coordinates
52.61448, -8.70194
SMR number
LI012-141----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on slight NE-facing slope, immediately NE of cashel (LI012-055----). Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m; base Wth 12.30m) with causewayed (L 6m; Wth. 0.95m) stone lined entrance (Wth 5m) at SW. The interior is undulating and strewn with rocks. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map the monument is depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped tree plantation. Outline of tree-covered monument visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019.

See attached Google earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 25 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - cashel in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map