Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockballyfookeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockballyfookeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.55567, -8.30966
- SMR number
- LI024-056----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On gentle NE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, approx. 10m to SW of the Reask River which forms townland boundary with Cross (O'Dwyer 1959, 75). Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (24m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2.05m; Wth 8.4m) visible from SE-S-W-N reduced to a scarp (H 2.75m) from N-E-SE, an intervening fosse (overall Wth 9.95m; base Wth 4.6m; D 1.05m) and traces of an external bank (Wth 5.15m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 0.15m) only visible from SSW-W-NW, with a gap (overall Wth 3.5m; base Wth 1m) at W. There is a breach at SSW where the outer bank is truncated by a field drain running ENE-WSW. The interior has a gradual ENE-facing slope and is planted with mature Beech trees and self-seeded thorn trees. Monument is visible as a tree-planted earthwork 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
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.