Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinveala, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinveala
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57006, -8.68963
- SMR number
- LI022-056----
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 tillage, in NE corner of field with good views in all directions, 235m S of townland boundary with Jockeyhall. Present remains consist of a raised circular shaped area (20m N-S x 22m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) from NE to NNW, reduced to a scarp from NNW to NE and external fosse (Base Wth 2.4m; Overall Wth 7.2m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.9m). The interior is level, dry and overgrown. The bank has two breaks at ESE (Wth 2.2m) and SE (Wth1.6m) and the fosse is infilled with rubble and field clearance at S and SE. A stone wall field boundary runs along the infilled fosse at NNW and NE. The monument is visible as a circular enclosure overgrown with trees on the Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2020.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.