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Ringfort - unclassified

Ballygeale, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Ballygeale, 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
Ballygeale
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56898, -8.73018
SMR number
LI021-114----

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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

On a gentle S-facing slope, in pasture, 145m N of a watercourse with good views from E-S-W, restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 40m). Not depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map, where area is occupied by the Limerick to Charleville railway line. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. All field boundaries and the disused railway line have been removed. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018, although a scar of the former railway line is evident running NW-SE across this area. Monument was probably levelled during the construction of the railway line as route of line ran across the SW quadrant of the possible ringfort.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 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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