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Ringfort - rath

Ballysimon (Staunton), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballysimon (Staunton), 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
Ballysimon (Staunton)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.64402, -8.56391
SMR number
LI013-120----

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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 in low-lying, gently undulating pasture, immediately S of the Limerick-Waterford railway line. The monument is masked in the W by grassy vegetation and in the E by dense scrub vegetation. Sub-oval area (c. 38m NW-SE; 29.2m E-W) defined by a gentle scarp and enclosed by two fosses and an intervening bank. The scarp (Wth. 1m; H 0.1m) is evident from NNE to NNW. The internal fosse (Wth. 2m) is U-shaped. The intervening bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth. 2.7m; ext. H 1.1m) is gently scarped on the interior and rounded on the exterior. There is a gap in the SW (Wth. 7.7m) in which there is a growth of Hawthorns, surrounding a mortared stone pillar. The external fosse (Wth. 5.7m; H 0.7m) is flat-bottomed. It is not evident to the W.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 31 May 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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