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Ringfort - rath

Ballyluddy, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyluddy, 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
Ballyluddy
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Raheennagaurlagh, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Raheennagaurlagh - Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.56002, -8.32539
SMR number
LI024-023----

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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 improved pasture, on a W-facing slope, abutting a townland boundary with Tullabeg to S. Annotated ‘Raheennagaurlagh’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure intersected at S by a public road running E-W. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (20m E-W; 13m N-S) defined by a levelled bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.05; ext. H 0.35m) from SW-W-NW and from NE–ENE-E, which is reduced to scarp from SE-SSE-S. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and a sketch plan which was measured and drawn by the ASI in 2008.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 26 September 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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