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Ringfort - rath

Ballinroche North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinroche North, 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
Ballinroche North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.58289, -8.69339
SMR number
LI022-002----

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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 slight E-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI022-001----) 20m to SW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a slightly raised oval-shaped area (58m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.65; ext. H 0.7m) from SE-S-W-N-NE, which is incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N-NE and a bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) which is almost reduced to a scarp from NE-E-SE. The surface of the interior has irregular undulations, which may indicate internal divisions. A field system is visible to E and SE. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 11 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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