Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (Clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (Clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.56999, -8.39869
- SMR number
- LI024-004----
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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 improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 0.8m) at foot of which is earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (Wth 4.55m; D 1.0m). present entrance (Wth 6m) to interior at SSW-SW. Fosse re-cut as field drain SSW-NE; field boundaries abut enclosure at NE and SSE. Bank covered by trees and scrub. Interior grass covered and slopes gently down to W.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 5 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.