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Ringfort - rath

Ballingowan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballingowan, 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
Ballingowan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.46312, -9.04258
SMR number
LI036-028----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pasture, on slight NE-facing slope. Circular area (31.2m N-S; 33.95m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) ESE->NNW and N->NNE and defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 1.8m) NNE->ESE and NNW->N, with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.2m) all around. There is a counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.4m) SSW->NW. Gaps in inner bank at NNW (Wth 1.2m), NNE (Wth 2.4m) and SE (Wth 1.8m). Matching gaps through inner and outer bank at SSW (Wth 2.3m) and W (Wth 1.3m). Field boundary, which skirted enclosure at SW, has been removed. Farm trackway, running N-S, has been constructed 6m E of enclosure. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NE.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

References

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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