Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamucky, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamucky
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48020, -8.86969
- SMR number
- LI029-104----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Oval area (33m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 2.5m). Field boundary (ext. H 0.95m) runs along outer edge of fosse except to NW where fosse skirted by farm passage. Enclosing bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.05m) is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth. Break in bank (Wth 1.4m) at SSE matched by break in field boundary (Wth 2m). Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.