Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylanders
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.38071, -8.35245
- SMR number
- LI049-177----
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
National Monument No. 625. Situated on flat grassland 60m S of stream marking townland boundary with Killeen. Well preserved platform type ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (approx. diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank intersected at E by a field boundary/drain running N-S. Curving linear earthworks visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph in field 80m to SW and W may be related to the platform ringfort.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.