Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintaw, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintaw
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.49250, -8.64619
- SMR number
- LI031-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat pasture, 225m SW of an enclosure (LI031-057----). Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 22m) defined by a bank from N-E-S-SW and scarp with external fosse from NE-SE and S-W, truncated at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular-shaped earthwork defined by bank, incorporated into field boundary at N and intersected at NE by field boundary running NE-SW. Monument visible as sub-circular shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank truncated by field boundary at N, on OSi orthophotographs taken between 2005-2012 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. Faint trace of external fosse at SE visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 308/33 & 37 taken 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.