Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballinscoola (smallcounty By., Cahercorney Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinscoola (smallcounty By., Cahercorney Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.50373, -8.47347
- SMR number
- LI032-084001-
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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
Two cashels (LI032-084002-) described in 1942-3 as following; 'The best preserved of these consists of a circular space surrounded by what seems to be a stone bank. It is very collapsed and none of the facing stones are visible. The entrance is on the south and is only barely discernible. Its overall diameter is 100' [30m]. It is situated on a very low limestone hill which is divided up by a system of ancient fences. The second fort [LI032-084002-] is immediately on the west of this but only the slightest trace of it remains. It was probably similar to the one described above. Its overall diameter seems to have been about 100' [30m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 240). Outline of extant cashel clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken 05/01/2003.
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.