Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynabanoge, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabanoge
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.47739, -8.70862
- SMR number
- LI030-113----
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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, 20m SE of a townland boundary with Dohora. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (33m E-W; 31m N-S). Described in the SMR file as a banked circular-shaped enclosure with an external ditch. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.