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Ringfort - rath

Ballymartin (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballymartin, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymartin (Kenry By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.65334, -8.88301
SMR number
LI003-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, in low-lying marshy area. Circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge, with two concentric outer earthen banks, with two intervening and an external fosse. Scarp (H 0.75m; Wth 3.9m) best preserved along S arc. Bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m), heavily masked by overgrowth at NE, is much denuded at NW. Break (Wth 4m) in outer bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. h 1.25m) at NW, matched by causeway across middle fosse and shallowing of inner fosse. Outer bank and fosse do not survive NW->NNE where field boundary cuts through middle fosse and skirts around inner bank. Inner fosse (Wth1.1m) best preserved at S. Middle (Wth 2.65m) and outer (Wth 2.2m) fosses waterlogged, with middle fosse widening at W (Wth 4m). Interior, under pasture, dips down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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