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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyveloge, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyveloge, 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
Ballyveloge
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Knockanabausa Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Knockanabausa Fort
Coordinates
52.61418, -8.70238
SMR number
LI012-055----

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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 slight NE-facing slope, cashel (LI012-141----) immediately to NE. Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 29m N-S) enclosed by a stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.85m; base Wth 1.23m). The interior is undulating with rubble from field clearance, bank disturbed at SW. Annotated 'Knockanabausa Fort' on both the 1840 OS 6-inch map and the 1897 OS 25-inch map. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as an oval shaped area enclosed by a bank, with trees planted in the interior with post-1700 field boundary intersects the monument at S and ESE. Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 shows the monument heavily overgrown with trees.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 19 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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