Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinacurra (Weston), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinacurra (Weston)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissadaha (1924) - Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.64309, -8.63624
- SMR number
- LI013-015----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the SW corner of a field now used as a playing field. The monument is indicated on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as 'Lissdaha', an enclosure defined by a scarp from W to SE and enclosed by a bank from SE to W. There are now no evident traces of the enclosure. Archaeological monitoring in 2000 (Stevens 2000) revealed this site to have a lowered interior, a denuded bank and an enclosing ditch. Three or four possible post holes were recorded in a linear alignment in the interior.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 28 February 2013
References
Stevens, P. 2000 Ballinacurra, summary report on archaeological monitoring. in Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.