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Ringfort - rath

Ballyfookoon, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyfookoon, 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
Ballyfookoon
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.56194, -8.71582
SMR number
LI021-061----

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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 low lying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. The ringfort is located on and just to the N of the townland boundary with Killonahan and 500m E of a ringfort (LI021-055----). The site is depicted as a small circular fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map within a rectangular shaped field. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 27m N-S; 35m E-W) where the S bank has been partially removed by a later field boundary. Inspected by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised ovoid-shaped area (int. diam. 14m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarped edge and an external fosse (Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) with a ramped entrance (Wth 6m) at N, which appears to be modern. A field drain flows from a ditch at NE along the E and S side of the ringfort through the fosse draining to the SW. The ringfort is overgrown with scrub woodland which is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 12 August 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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