Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyegny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyegny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52911, -9.07658
- SMR number
- LI028-007----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (17.6m N-S; 19.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.05m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 3.8m). Bank is denuded by cattle in places and partially overgrown with thorn bushes. Entrance (Wth 3.6m) at ENE, now partially blocked with stones. Fosse most prominent E->N; elsewhere line of fosse marked by marshy ground and stand of irises. Traces of stones along outer edge of fosse, particularly S->W, may indicate remains of outer bank. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.