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
- 52.57288, -8.72401
- SMR number
- LI021-024----
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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, moderate views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-023----) lies 150m to N. No surface remains visible. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and a sub-circular shaped area (approx. dims. 21m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scarp on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Faint trace of cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 02/07/2018.
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
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.