Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvira, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvira
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56064, -8.85570
- SMR number
- LI020-090----
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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 gentle S-facing slope, immediately N of disused trackway and railway line. Oval area (40m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved S->N. Bank incorporated into linear dry-stone field wall NNE->ESE. Gaps in bank at SE (Wth 10m) and N (Wth 3m). Field wall kinks around external base of bank W->N. Interior, covered with briars, nettles and thorn trees, is higher in N half where limestone outcrops at surface.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.