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Ringfort - rath

Ballyvogue, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyvogue, 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
Ballyvogue
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.61365, -8.90213
SMR number
LI011-061----

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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, on brow of low hill, in paddock immediately E of farm passage. Roughly circular area (28.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) SE->NW. Bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.4m) best preserved WSW->NE; from NE->SE it has been worn down to a scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 4m) by cattle accessing interior. Dip in bank at SW (Wth 3.5m); gap in bank (Wth 3.2m) at WNW. Faint counterscarp bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m) WSW->W. A field wall runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NW. Interior, covered by mature ash trees, slopes down gently to E. A small disused concrete-block farm shed (4m x 4m) stands in NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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