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
- 52.55611, -9.20026
- SMR number
- LI018-051----
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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, on N-facing slope. Circular area (26m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 4m). Both inner bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.1m) and outer bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.95m) overgrown with trees and bushes as is much of interior. Field boundary overlies outer bank E->SE; second field boundary abuts outer bank at NW. Break in outer bank NE->E appears to be recently made.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.