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Ringfort - rath

Ballycummin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballycummin, 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
Ballycummin
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.61901, -8.67159
SMR number
LI013-036----

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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

Situated on a gentle SE facing slope, in undulating pasture. The monument is partially masked by dense scrub vegetation. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) is enclosed by an internal bank, a partially surviving external bank and a partially surviving intervening fosse. The internal bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m; Wth 1.1m) is evident for all of its circuit. There is a gap at NE (Wth 1.8m), and one at S (Wth 1.8m) which has a stone facing on the NE side. The fosse (Wth 1.1m) is evident from N to W and from ESE to SSE. The external bank (ext. H 0.1m; int. H 0.1m; Wth 0.5m) is evident from N to W and from ESE to SSE. The interior slopes down gently to the SE. There is a grassed-over hummock of stones (diam. 3m E-W; H less than 0.5m) in the NE quadrant of the interior.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 27 March 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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