Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyshoneen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshoneen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathaniska, hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathaniska - Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.55124, -8.32218
- SMR number
- LI024-052----
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 deciduous woodland, 20m to E of a stream, which marks the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. Annotated ‘Rathaniska’ and depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (O'Dwyer 1959, 98). Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.45-0.55m; ext. H 1.35-1.4m; Wth 5.5-5.75m) from WSW-N-E-S-SSE and reduced to scarp (H 0.95m) elsewhere with possible external fosse (Wth 4.85m; D 0.5m) visible from WNW-NW only. The bank is interrupted by a pond (dims. c. 6m E-W; c. 5m N-S) from SSE-S-SSW. AThe interior is generally level and is planted with deciduous trees. Linear mounds (Wth 0.8m; H 0.1m) which cross the interior (long-axis NNW-SSE) seem to be related to tree planting. Monument is visible as a tree-planted area on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 15 July 2020
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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