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Ringfort - rath

Ballywilliam South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballywilliam South, 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
Ballywilliam South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.51635, -8.91737
SMR number
LI029-035----

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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, atop ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been modified by construction of field boundaries atop its enclosing element to form small sub-square field (L c. 30m). Eastern arc of enclosing element is truncated by N-S dry-stone field wall, but original enclosing element survives NNE->NE and SE->SSE as earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9m). Gap in bank at SE (Wth c. 2m) has been worn down by cattle accessing interior. A field boundary, which replaces/incorporates this bank SSE->NNE, is masked by dense overgrowth. Level interior under rough pasture. Field boundary abuts enclosing element at WSW.
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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