Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boolavoord, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolavoord
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54581, -8.61216
- SMR number
- LI022-134----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'About one-third of the east side of this monument has been levelled out. It consists of a platform around the edge of which there was a bank. A fosse is not visible. The overall diameter is 200' [61m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 223). Outline of monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 February 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.