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
- 52.46552, -8.81712
- SMR number
- LI038-016----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (25.8m N-S; 21.5m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m) W->E, and defined by heavily eroded scarped edge E->W (H 1.5m; Wth 7m). Level interior under pasture but heavily poached by cattle.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.