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Ringfort - rath

Ballyfraley, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyfraley, 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
Ballyfraley
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46657, -9.02673
SMR number
LI036-212----

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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 level pasture, 253m N of Ballyfraley stream, a ringfort (LI036-032 ----) lies 35m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Hugh Carey during examination of aerial photographs (Bing maps aerial photograph 2014) and described as a possible ringfort. Levelled monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 37m N-S; 42m E-Wm) from SE-S-W-NW, delimited from NW-N-E-SE by a curved field boundary running NW-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimages. A linear cropmark running N-S intersects the monument at SE.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bing maps aerial photograph.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 20 April 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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