Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyea (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyea (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathnagreany, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathnagreany, Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.53381, -8.59604
- SMR number
- LI022-139----
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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
Ringfort described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is an earthen platform on the edge of which there is a bank. The latter seems to have been faced on the inside with stone, but little of this facing now remains. The whole is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance was on the side where a sloping causeway leads across the fosse to a break in the bank. The greatest height of the latter over the fosse bottom is 10' [3m] and the overall diameter is 150' [45m]. The fort, which is called Rath na Gréine on the O.S map, is situated on a sharply rising knoll on the bank of the Camoge River' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 222). The outline of the monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 February 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.