Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfraley, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfraley
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46657, -9.02673
- SMR number
- LI036-212----
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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 level pasture, 253m N of Ballyfraley stream, a ringfort (LI036-032 ----) lies 35m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Hugh Carey during examination of aerial photographs (Bing maps aerial photograph 2014) and described as a possible ringfort. Levelled monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 37m N-S; 42m E-Wm) from SE-S-W-NW, delimited from NW-N-E-SE by a curved field boundary running NW-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimages. A linear cropmark running N-S intersects the monument at SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bing maps aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 20 April 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.