Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyeawood, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeawood
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49242, -8.90878
- SMR number
- LI029-065----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, on marshy low-lying terrain. Circular area (diam. 30m N-S) enclosed by three concentric earth-and-stone banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.55m), best preserved along NW arc but much denuded by cattle elsewhere. Much-degraded middle bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) can only be traced SSW->E. Outer bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.25m) survives E->S; it is truncated at S end by concrete tank (6m N-S; 10m E-W). Curved field boundary skirts around outside of enclosure W->NE; this possibly incorporates section of outer bank. Level interior covered by nettles and briars. Distance between inner and middle bank is 3m; distance between inner and outer bank is 15m.
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.