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Ringfort - rath

Ballyea (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyea, 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
Ballyea (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathnagreany, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Rathnagreany, Hachured
Coordinates
52.53381, -8.59604
SMR number
LI022-139----

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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

Ringfort described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is an earthen platform on the edge of which there is a bank. The latter seems to have been faced on the inside with stone, but little of this facing now remains. The whole is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance was on the side where a sloping causeway leads across the fosse to a break in the bank. The greatest height of the latter over the fosse bottom is 10' [3m] and the overall diameter is 150' [45m]. The fort, which is called Rath na Gréine on the O.S map, is situated on a sharply rising knoll on the bank of the Camoge River' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 222). The outline of the 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

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

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