Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylin, Part of (shanid By., Lismakeery Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin, Part of (shanid By., Lismakeery Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54238, -9.03373
- SMR number
- LI019-203----
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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
Atop low hill, in area of waste-ground covered by scrub vegetation. Roughly circular area (31m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.3m) and external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.8m). Inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) best preserved at NNW. Outer bank (ext. H 1.1m) has a berm (max. Wth 8m) separating it's inner face (H 0.2m) from external edge of intervening fosse SE->NE. All enclosing elements, except the inner bank, are truncated by linear dry-stone field wall (N-S axis) ENE->ESE. A low earth-and-stone field boundary (max. ext. H 0.55m) skirts around outer edge of external fosse SE->NNE, and is abutted at NNE by a dry-stone wall which replaces bank for a short distance before veering off to NE. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.45m) at NW. Interior level and partially covered by overgrowth. A small mound (H c. 0.35m) of earth and stone (2m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE) lies immediately NE of centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.