Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfoleen South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfoleen South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.50181, -8.81431
- SMR number
- LI030-037----
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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. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by denuded earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m) except at SE where truncated by field wall with NE-SW axis. Slight fosse evident at N (Wth 3.5m; D 0.1m). According to local information enclosing bank stood to height of c. 0.5m until partially levelled in 1980. Interior under pasture and slopes down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.