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Ringfort - rath

Ballyegny More, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyegny More, 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 More
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.52719, -9.05036
SMR number
LI028-031----

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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 N-facing slope and immediately N of avenue to Ballyegny House. Circular area (30.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), with external fosse (Wth 3.75m) SSW->SSE, and with counterscarp bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.65m) NNE->SSE. Bank increases in external height (max. H 2.35m) on N side to compensate for slope of ground; internal height is low throughout. Fosse is covered by dense overgrowth SSW->NNW. Interior, which slopes gently down to N, and bank are covered by mature deciduous trees. Field boundary abuts edge of fosse at NNE and a low earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H 0.2m) crosses fosse at SE.
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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