Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycummin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycummin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.61901, -8.67159
- SMR number
- LI013-036----
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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
Situated on a gentle SE facing slope, in undulating pasture. The monument is partially masked by dense scrub vegetation. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) is enclosed by an internal bank, a partially surviving external bank and a partially surviving intervening fosse. The internal bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m; Wth 1.1m) is evident for all of its circuit. There is a gap at NE (Wth 1.8m), and one at S (Wth 1.8m) which has a stone facing on the NE side. The fosse (Wth 1.1m) is evident from N to W and from ESE to SSE. The external bank (ext. H 0.1m; int. H 0.1m; Wth 0.5m) is evident from N to W and from ESE to SSE. The interior slopes down gently to the SE. There is a grassed-over hummock of stones (diam. 3m E-W; H less than 0.5m) in the NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 27 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.