Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynatona (coshlea By., Kilbeheny Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynatona (coshlea By., Kilbeheny Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.29501, -8.19740
- SMR number
- LI060-006----
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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 level pasture with moderate views in all directions. Depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork in S corner of field on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A curve in the field boundary in S corner of field marks site of levelled earthwork. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following; ‘Sweeps Fort, situated on N side of road which divides that townland from Church Quarter. The name of a circular fort’ (OSNB).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 October 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.