Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylin (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51837, -8.86184
- SMR number
- LI029-047----
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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 undulating pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 27.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.2m) SE->N. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m), stone-faced externally, is best preserved N->S; it becomes wide and flat-topped (Wth 2.8m) NW->NNE where stone-facing is best preserved. Fosse, which is masked by vegetation overgrowth, is littered with stone from collapsed facing of bank. Level interior covered by mature trees. Field boundary (axis N-S) skirts enclosure at E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.