Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynagoul, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagoul
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.39536, -8.66415
- SMR number
- LI047-115----
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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
A roughly circular enclosure, measuring 12.5m in diameter. The enclosure is defined by a low earthen bank, which is 0.15m higher than the space it closes. Around this enclosing bank is a shallow ditch with a depth of 0.1m to 0.25m. The ditch is wet and contains rushes. There is a possible entrance in the west side, evident on Google Earth imagery from 2006 and 2017. Bordering the enclosure on the south-east, and perhaps slightly cutting into it, are the remains of a field boundary. This is likely to be more recent, though still pre-1840 as it does not occur on any OS maps. The enclosure may be the remains of a prehistoric ring ditch or ring barrow, given its similarity in terms of size and morphology to sites found elsewhere in Limerick and Tipperary (see Doody 1993; Doody 2001; Doody 2008).
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload/revision: 6 March 2023
Images uploaded courtesy of Dr Costello (01- SW-facing view of site; 02 - Google Earth imagery 2006; 03 - Google Earth imagery 2017)
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.