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Ringfort - rath

Ballylin, Part of (Shanid By., Lismakeery ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballylin, Part of, 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
Ballylin, Part of (Shanid By., Lismakeery ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.54238, -9.03373
SMR number
LI019-203----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Atop low hill, in area of waste-ground covered by scrub vegetation. Roughly circular area (31m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.3m) and external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.8m). Inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) best preserved at NNW. Outer bank (ext. H 1.1m) has a berm (max. Wth 8m) separating it's inner face (H 0.2m) from external edge of intervening fosse SE->NE. All enclosing elements, except the inner bank, are truncated by linear dry-stone field wall (N-S axis) ENE->ESE. A low earth-and-stone field boundary (max. ext. H 0.55m) skirts around outer edge of external fosse SE->NNE, and is abutted at NNE by a dry-stone wall which replaces bank for a short distance before veering off to NE. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.45m) at NW. Interior level and partially covered by overgrowth. A small mound (H c. 0.35m) of earth and stone (2m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE) lies immediately NE of centre.
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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