Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynoe (connello Upper By., Ballynoe Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynoe (connello Upper By., Ballynoe Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.43998, -8.82720
- SMR number
- LI038-050----
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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 pasture, atop low rise in undulating terrain. Sub-circular area (26.2m N-S; 30.1m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 4.1m). Inner bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.7m), best preserved W->NE, reduces to a low scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 1m) NE->SSE. Outer bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 0.6m), best preserved W->NNE, is very much denuded elsewhere. Fosse, best preserved along N arc, has been infilled NE->SSE. External face of inner bank has been quarried out at SW, W and NNW giving impression of a wider fosse. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to SE, rises up sharply at edges to meet inner bank. Mature trees and bushes cover enclosing banks.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.