What is recorded here
The earthen ringfort in Ballynakill More is a 23-metre circle of land shaped before memory, now hidden beneath scrub and trees in marshy ground. Its bank stands forty centimetres outside and twenty-five inside, with a narrow fosse cutting around it like a forgotten boundary. People may have lived there, excluded rain or marked ownership, but the land has taken the shape back and keeps it tenderly.
In level marshy terrain. Circular area (diam. 23m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.2m). Interior level and overgrown with scrub and trees.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/ 28, 29 on 05/10/2002.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Rathfredagh Cheshire Homecountry house · 645 yd
Ballynakill HouseRuins · 778 yd
Lissanaska HachuredFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.0 mi
Ballynoe Castle (in ruins)Castle, tower house · 1.4 mi
Castle MahonCastle · 1.7 mi
LaghtpatrickSpring · 2.6 mi
Sunday WellSpring · 2.7 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 2.8 mi
Limerick GreenwayWalking route · 6.7 mi
Ballagh MountainMountain / peak · 7.0 mi
Sugar HillMountain / peak · 7.8 mi