Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymongaun, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymongaun
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36087, -8.88226
- SMR number
- LI045-096----
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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 pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.55m) with external fosse (D 1.4m; Wth 1.6m). Gap in bank (Wth 1.5m) at NNE, but no causeway over fosse here. Interior marshy and heavily masked by overgrowth. Earthen field boundary (H 0.3m) crosses enclosing element and interior on NW-SE axis; boundary continues SE of enclosure but has been removed on NW side.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.