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Ringfort - rath

Ballycasey, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballycasey, 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
Ballycasey
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.61360, -8.78222
SMR number
LI012-040----

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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, atop hill; in NW corner of large field with public road immediately to W. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on N and W sides by field boundaries. Enclosing element survives E->SSE as scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 10m) containing wedge-shaped area (32m N-S; 34m E-W) otherwise enclosed by field boundary. Interior under pasture and slopes down gently to N. Both 1841 and 1923 OS 6-inch maps marks a "cave" immediately S of centre within enclosure, suggesting the presence of a souterrain, but there is no evident trace of any such feature.
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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