Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinlyny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlyny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51883, -8.99374
- SMR number
- LI028-070----
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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, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.75m). Interior used as dump for earth and stones; dump extends over triangular area (15.5m x 34m) to NE of enclosure. Two field boundaries, shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map abutting bank at NE, have been removed.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.