Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfoleen North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfoleen North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.50974, -8.81137
- SMR number
- LI030-007----
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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, atop low rise in gently undulating terrain. Circular area (20m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m) best preserved on N side where it uses natural slope to enhance its profile; bank also covered by dense overgrowth on N side. Entrance at ESE (Wth 4.8m). Interior, used for rough grazing, slopes down gently towards entrance. Field wall, on SW-NE axis, cuts across arc of enclosing bank on NW side.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.