Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvulla, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvulla
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52114, -9.03223
- SMR number
- LI028-047----
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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 reclaimed pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (28m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m) N->SSW and defined by scarped edge (H 0.35m; Wth 3.15m) SSW->N, with external fosse (D 0.2m: Wth 1.9m) NE->SSW and SW->NW. Bank is covered in places by fallen trees. Fosse clipped slightly by field boundary a NW. Interior under pasture and slopes down to E; surface has been churned up by sheep who are fed here.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.