Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycormick, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycormick
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56838, -9.11098
- SMR number
- LI019-006----
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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
In pasture, on SE-facing hill slope. Roughly oval area (33.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) SW->NW and NE->SE. At N and S enclosing element is truncated by field boundaries which converge to form acute angle 28m E of enclosure. Interior and much of enclosing element covered by furze bushes, and otherwise heavily poached by cattle accessing stream running along base of field boundary on N side of angle.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.