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Ringfort - rath

Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynamona, 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
Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.49678, -8.45948
SMR number
LI032-089----

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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

Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'This consists of a circular fairly flat topped earthen mound which does not seem to have had a fosse. There is no bank on the platform or around the mound. The maximum height is 7' [2.1m] and its overall diameter is 100' [30m]. It is situated on the very edge of the bank of a stream tributary to the Camoge River' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 179). The outline of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 27 February 2020

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 351/4 and 5 taken 05/01/2003.

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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