Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinruane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinruane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.42407, -8.89211
- SMR number
- LI037-084----
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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 mature coniferous forestry, on S-facing slope. Circular area (41m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.5m) N->E, with external fosse (D 0.75m; Wth 0.4m) NNE->E. Line of enclosing element marked by scatter of loose stones E->NNW, but levelled NNW->N. Gap in bank with causeway across fosse at SSE (Wth 2m) and WSW (Wth 1.9m). Enclosing element has been damaged by machinery, with resultant variation in height and depth of bank and fosse respectively. A field boundary, running N-S, skirts along outer edge of fosse NE->E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.