Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybricken West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybricken West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.57322, -8.50997
- SMR number
- LI023-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture with some rock outcroping, on a WNW-facing slope. Circular area (30m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarped edge NE-SE and SW-W (Wth 7.6m; D 2.45m); scarp in levelled W-NE and is obscured by impenetrable vegetation SE-SSE and S-SW. Interior slopes down gently with prevalent slope in E-half and is generally level in W-half, where it may have been raised to compensate for hill-slope. Scarp incorporates rock outcrop SW-W where there is evidence of former shallow quarrying.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.