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Ringfort - cashel

Ballinlough, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballinlough, 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
Ballinlough
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50721, -8.42054
SMR number
LI032-108----

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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

Cashel described in 1943 as following; 'This fort consists of a single stone bank enclosing a circular space. The rampart very collapsed, so much so that the entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 78' [24m]. Outside the fort on the south side and butting against the bank is a rectangular platform. The east end of this is marked by a line or large boulders but elsewhere it shows just as a level platform slightly raised over the surrounding ground. It measures 48' [14.6m] by 12' [3.6m]. The fort is the centre of a system of ancient fences which run in various directions over the hill' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 175).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 February 2020

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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