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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48332, -9.09881
- SMR number
- LI028-161----
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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 W-facing slope. Oval area (38.5m NW-SE; 31.2m NE-SW) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) grades to a scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2m) E->N, but outer bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.25m) evident all round. Greatest external bank height of outer bank is at WSW (H 0.7m). Enclosure is dissected by field boundary travelling on NW-SE axis (approx. two-thirds of enclosure lies NE of boundary). Interior slopes down to W and is under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.