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
- 52.54541, -8.30908
- SMR number
- LI024-057----
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 rough and wet, level pasture. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.25m; Wth 5.4m) visible from W-N-NE, reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.8m) elsewhere, fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.45m) best preserved from WNW-N-NE and SSW-SW with possible remains of an external bank visible from NNE-ENE. The fosse is obscured by dense overgrowth from S-SSW and is waterlogged from SSW-SW. Interior very overgrown with vegetation. According to local information, this is known as the ‘fort field’. Monument is visible as a tree-covered 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.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 July 2020
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.