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Ringfort - rath

Knockballyfookeen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockballyfookeen, 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
Knockballyfookeen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.55644, -8.31290
SMR number
LI024-055----

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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

On NNE-facing slope, in pasture, 110m WSW of the Reask River. (O'Dwyer 1959, 73) Ringfort (LI024-054----) lies 180m to WNW. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork (approx. 32m E-W; 25m N-S). Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a densely overgrown, oval-shaped area defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.95m; Wth 5.35m), an intervening fosse (overall Wth 3.45m; base Wth 1.15m; D 0.4m) and a possible outer bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth 5.75m) with possible entrance (Wth 4m at top; base Wth 1.5m) at ENE . The bank is visible from ESE-S-W-N-ENE and is reduced to a scarp (H0.65m) from ENE-E-ESE. The intervening fosse is visible from SE-S-W-N and is best defined from S-W. There is a short portion of a possible outer bank visible only from W-WNW. Monument is visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 15 July 2020

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

Nearby in the register

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

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