Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhinnaught, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhinnaught
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.41865, -8.63759
- SMR number
- LI039-104----
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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 level marshy pasture. Former circular enclosure now truncated on W and N sides by field boundaries. Survives as D-shaped area (18.2m N-S; 10.6m E-W) defined NNE->ENE by scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 2.1m) and enclosed ENE->SW by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m), with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 2.1m) NNE->SW; elsewhere enclosed by linear field boundary. Interior is level and, except along margins, covered by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.