Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballywilliam South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywilliam South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51479, -8.92332
- SMR number
- LI029-033----
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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 S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1.8m) NNE->ESE and SSW->WNW; fosse covered by nettles. Bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.2m), heavily masked by overgrowth, is best preserved along S arc. Break in bank (Wth 1.8m) matched by causeway (Wth 5.7m) at SE. Interior, covered with nettles, slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.