Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynagoul, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagoul
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38529, -8.65291
- SMR number
- LI047-034----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 125m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Mountblakeney. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 27m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp, which forms post 1700 century field boundary from S-W, with fosse and outer bank visible from W-N-NE. A gap in outer bank at NW may be original entrance feature. Outline of monument delimited by bushes is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.