Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballingowan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingowan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46312, -9.04258
- SMR number
- LI036-028----
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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 undulating pasture, on slight NE-facing slope. Circular area (31.2m N-S; 33.95m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) ESE->NNW and N->NNE and defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 1.8m) NNE->ESE and NNW->N, with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.2m) all around. There is a counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.4m) SSW->NW. Gaps in inner bank at NNW (Wth 1.2m), NNE (Wth 2.4m) and SE (Wth 1.8m). Matching gaps through inner and outer bank at SSW (Wth 2.3m) and W (Wth 1.3m). Field boundary, which skirted enclosure at SW, has been removed. Farm trackway, running N-S, has been constructed 6m E of enclosure. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.