Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynagaul, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagaul
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagry- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55811, -9.30245
- SMR number
- LI017-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (44m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 2.6m) and fosse (Wth 4m) are truncated E->S, and outer bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m) NE->SW, by field boundaries which form corner of field at SE. Entrance (Wth 2m) at NW recently widened but probably original. Interior level and in marshy pasture. Enclosing banks overgrown with trees and bushes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.