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Ringfort - rath

Ballycormick, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballycormick, 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
Ballycormick
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not shown.
Coordinates
52.57073, -9.11524
SMR number
LI019-271----

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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

In pasture 15m SW of ringfort (LI019-005----) and 15m W of fulacht Fia (LI019-272----). Not depicted on OS maps. Identified as the outline of a fort bisected by a field boundary running NNE-SSW and indicated as Site 1B on plan submitted by P.J. O’Hanlon of Teagasc in 2009 (SMR File). The levelled site is visible as the ploughed out remains of a possible bivallate ringfort consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 40m) enclosed by two banks with intervening fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/10/2010. Faint cropmark of levelled enclosure bisected by farm road visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 15/04/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 15 July 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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