Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyneety (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyneety (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52971, -9.05484
- SMR number
- LI028-025----
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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 pasture 20m SW of ringfort (LI019-198----) and 65m N of ringfort (LI028-026----). Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a circular-shaped area (int. diam. 24m; ext. dims. 44m NE-SW; 42m E-W) defined by the remains of an internal bank and external scarp with an intervening fosse. The inner bank (approx. Wth 4m) is depicted throughout while the intervening fosse (max. Wth 4.5m) is shown from E through S to W. The outer enclosing element is evident as a scarp from E through S to W and as a field boundary from W through N to NNE. A spring well is shown within the fosse at SE and is connected to a drain that intersects the outer bank at E. Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/04/2015 shows the partially overgrown monument with cropmark of levelled ringfort (LI019-198----) immediately to NE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.