Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoolahan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoolahan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56892, -9.31540
- SMR number
- LI017-016----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture. Circular area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening (Wth 3m) fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.75m) and external bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.8m) covered by mature trees. Outer bank overlain or replaced by field boundary NNE->SSW. Break in bank (Wth 1.25m) with causeway across fosse at NNE. Interior level and partially overgrown by bushes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.