Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhahill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhahill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55612, -9.21116
- SMR number
- LI018-047----
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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 undulating pasture, at foot of N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks and an external fosse. Entire enclosure is covered by dense overgrowth. Inner bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m) survives its full circuit but outer bank (int. H 2.6m) and external fosse (D 1.7m; Wth 2.4m) replaced by field boundary WNW->SE. Extending SW from edge of enclosure in low linear bank (H 0.25m; Wth 4m) travelling 14m before turning at right angle to NW and running a further 4m before petering out.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.