Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygeale, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygeale
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57461, -8.72427
- SMR number
- LI021-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gentle undulating pasture, good to moderate views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-024----) lies 150m to S. Present remains consist of a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 26m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.9m; H int. 0.3; ext. 1.2m) with traces of an external fosse best preserved at SW (base Wth 2.2m; D 0.3m). Modern ramp (Wth 6.5m) crosses scarp at W, fosse absent here. Interior of site level with external fosse and clear of overgrowth. A portion of the interior in the SW quadrant has been fenced off with post and wire fence as a dump for old fodder. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank with a gap at N on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 9 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.