Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyelan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.46173, -8.81925
- SMR number
- LI038-013----
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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. Circular area (43.1m N-S; 41.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 1.1m). Enclosing element is truncated at N side by E-W field boundary. Counterscarp bank evident at NE (ext. H 0.3m). Break in bank (Wth c. 3m) at WNW with causeway across fosse.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.