Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyroe West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.46898, -8.84112
- SMR number
- LI038-001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on NNW-facing hill slope. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) clipped by field boundary at NE on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field. However, it is now evident as a circular area (29.8m N-S; 29.7m E-W) defined by scarped edge NW->NNE and E->S. Scarp (H 0.9m; Wth 10m) is best preserved at NW. Curved section of earth-and-stone field boundary overlies enclosing element NNE->E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.