Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balline, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balline
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.40769, -8.45182
- SMR number
- LI048-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 wet pasture, 16m W of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballynahinch. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (dims. c. 14.5m NW-SE; 14 NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.