Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfeerode, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfeerode
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.33075, -8.37595
- SMR number
- LI057-025----
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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 pasture 55m W of the Ahaphuca River that marks the townland boundary with Cullane South. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, roughly oval-shaped, area (dims. c. 52m NW-SE; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse from SW-W-N, incorporated into a field boundary from N-SE. Westropp described this site as ‘a ring-fort with a diamond-shaped annexe’ (1916/17, 22). Visible as an irregular-shaped area delimited by trees on Google Earth orthoimages with faint trace of annexe visible to SSE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
References
Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.