Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyluddy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyluddy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheennagaurlagh, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheennagaurlagh - Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.56002, -8.32539
- SMR number
- LI024-023----
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 improved pasture, on a W-facing slope, abutting a townland boundary with Tullabeg to S. Annotated ‘Raheennagaurlagh’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure intersected at S by a public road running E-W. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (20m E-W; 13m N-S) defined by a levelled bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.05; ext. H 0.35m) from SW-W-NW and from NE–ENE-E, which is reduced to scarp from SE-SSE-S. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and a sketch plan which was measured and drawn by the ASI in 2008.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 26 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.