Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Badgerfort, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Badgerfort
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57205, -8.62812
- SMR number
- LI022-235----
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 gently undulating pasture on a slight E-facing slope 70m E of townland boundary with Bawnacouma. Ringfort (LI022-029----) located 150m to W. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular shaped area (diam. 12m) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.4m) and an external fosse (Wth 4m) visible from SE to N with a possible ramped entrance (Wth 3m) at E. The undulating interior has a channel (Wth 1.1m; D 0.2m) running E-W, possibley a drainage ditch. Local information indicated the site was levelled c. 1950. The outline of the monument bisected by a post 1700 drainage ditch is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.
See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.