Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyneety South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyneety South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51250, -8.32733
- SMR number
- LI033-039002-
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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 reclaimed pasture 60m W of stream and 250m S of Ballyneety House. One of three monuments aligned on a NW-SE axis. Ringfort (LI033-039001-) to immediate NE and enclosure (LI033-104----) to immediate SW. Not depicted on any OSi 6-inch maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.7m; H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) from S-NE and reduced a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m) elsewhere, with fosse (Wth 6.1m; D 0.2m) best preserved from NW-W and ESE-SE; outer bank (Wth 5.15m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.15m) visible at NW and ESE. Monument intersected at S by field boundary running E-W and at N by drainage ditch running N-S. Outline of monument visible in centre of three earthworks on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 30 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.