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Ringfort - rath

Ballyegny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyegny, 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
Ballyegny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.52746, -9.07092
SMR number
LI028-010----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Site is covered by overgrowth and only arc of enclosing element NW->NE is accessible. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.75m) is denuded by cattle at N. Outer bank of earth-and-stone (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.15m) best preserved SE->NE; at SE and NE it adjoins linear field boundaries, which extend eastwards to join a N-S field boundary. Break in outer bank (Wth c. 6m) at NNW where field boundary, which formerly abutted the bank, has been removed. Fosse wide and flat-bottomed (Wth 5m base). Interior densely overgrown with thorn bushes and nettles.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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