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Ringfort - rath

Ballyneety South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyneety 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
Ballyneety South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.51279, -8.32713
SMR number
LI033-039001-

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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 35m W of stream and 200m S of Ballyneety House. One of three adjacent monuments aligned on a NW-SE axis. Enclosure (LI033-039002-) to immediate SW and enclosure (LI033-104----) 45m to SW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 27m NW-SE, 23m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with a well depicted 10m to E. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 17m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 8.2m; H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) from NNE-SE reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.6m) elsewhere, with fosse (Wth 8.8m; D 0.35m) best preserved from NE-NW and outer bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.15m). Breaches (Wth 3.5m; 12m) at SE and SW. The fosse and outer bank are truncated at NE by drain running E-W. Visible as the furthest N of three adjoining earthworks on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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