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Ringfort - rath

Pallasbeg, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Pallasbeg, 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
Pallasbeg
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.58663, -8.36407
SMR number
LI024-013----

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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 undulating damp pasture. Oval area (19m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 3.2m; H 0.7m) with a fosse (overall Wth 6.2m; basal Wth 1.8m; D 0.2m) at its base. Outside this are two concentric earthen banks: inner bank (Wth 8.25m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.75m) best preserved W-NNE and ESE-SW but is levelled NNE-ESE and reduced to scarp S-W; outer bank (Wth 6.9m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m) separated from latter by fosse (overall Wth 8.05m; basal Wth 3m; D 0.15m) and outside it is the outermost fosse (Wth 4.9m; D 0.05m). Possible causewayed entrances at E and SSE (Wth 4m and 5m respectively). Interior grass covered and surface slightly uneven.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 6 December 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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