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Ringfort - rath

Ballinveala, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinveala, 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
Ballinveala
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.57006, -8.68963
SMR number
LI022-056----

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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 tillage, in NE corner of field with good views in all directions, 235m S of townland boundary with Jockeyhall. Present remains consist of a raised circular shaped area (20m N-S x 22m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) from NE to NNW, reduced to a scarp from NNW to NE and external fosse (Base Wth 2.4m; Overall Wth 7.2m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.9m). The interior is level, dry and overgrown. The bank has two breaks at ESE (Wth 2.2m) and SE (Wth1.6m) and the fosse is infilled with rubble and field clearance at S and SE. A stone wall field boundary runs along the infilled fosse at NNW and NE. The monument is visible as a circular enclosure overgrown with trees on the Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2020.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 4 August 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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