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Ringfort - rath

Ballyneety North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyneety North, 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
Ballyneety North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.52063, -8.32893
SMR number
LI033-038----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

In reclaimed pasture 25m W of road that marks the townland boundary with Treanmanagh. Earthwork (LI033-095----) 85m to NW. Not depicted as an antiquity on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but shown as an irregular-shaped field (dims. 41m N-S, 22m E-S) defined by a field boundary within landscaped field system associated with the estate lands of Derk House to N and Ballyneety House to S. The area immediately to N and E is annotated ‘Palatine Street’.
Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (dims. 34m NW-SE, 30m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank truncated at NE by L shaped post-1700 field boundary. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 25m NW-SE, 22m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.75m) with fosse (Wth 7.4m; D 0.65m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.5m) visible from ESE-N only. Causewayed gap (Wth 9m) at ENE with further beaches (Wth 4m; 1.8m) at SE and WSW respectively. Fosse best preserved from SE-S-W-N. Outer bank denuded from SW-W-N.
Monument described in 1960-4 as follows; ‘Platform 93 feet (28.3m) in diameter and 3 feet 6 inches (1.1m) high. Encircling ditch 9 feet (2.7m) wide and with a 12 feet (3.65m) wide outer bank. This earthwork is very well preserved. Marked on the O.S. map where adjacent area is named ‘Palatine Street’; the district is locally known as Palatine’ (O’Dwyer 1964, 95; Ballyneety North 59). Partially overgrown monument truncated by field boundary at NE visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and profile of monument drawn by O'Dwyer 1964

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 March 2021

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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