Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballymurragh West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurragh West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.40556, -9.15618
- SMR number
- LI043-007----
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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, on the SSW-facing slope of a low hill. A circular area (12.3m N-S; 11.9m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.95m) with an external bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m). The fosse is waterlogged and covered by a stand of rushes. There are opposite causewayed entrances at E (Wth 2.6m) and at W (Wth 3m). A field boundary skirts the bank at N. The interior is level and covered by rough grazing with some rushes growing on its partially waterlogged surface.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.