Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylinane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylinane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.40647, -9.08433
- SMR number
- LI044-015----
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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 level dry pasture. Circular area (diam. 37m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 2.3m) with external fosse (D 2.3m; Wth 6m). Gap (Wth c. 6m) in bank at SSW is recent. Farm trackway skirts along outside edge of fosse NNE->SW. Interior recently cleared of scrub overgrowth which is now piled up along parts of bank.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.