Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Jockeyhall, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jockeyhall
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57408, -8.69055
- SMR number
- LI022-003----
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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
On a slight E-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, situated 115m to N of the townland with Ballinveala, with moderate to good views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-004----) 95m to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as an L-shaped area enclosed by an earthen bank from N-E-SE only. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised rectangular-shaped area (32m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.4; ext. H 0.6m) to N and E and which is incorporated into a field boundary to S and W. Bank is breached by a modern gap (Wth 6m) at NE. Monument is visible as a roughly rectangular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.