Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinena, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinena
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.48106, -9.09571
- SMR number
- LI028-122----
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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 undulating pasture, on gentle E-facing slope immediately below top of low rise. Circular area (36.6m N-S; 35.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m), with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.65m) SSW->NNW and at NE. Interior under pasture and sloping gently down to E; W side crossed by post-and-wire fence on N-S axis. A field boundary runs E-W immediately N of enclosure.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.