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Ringfort - rath

Ballynarooga Beg, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynarooga Beg, 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
Ballynarooga Beg
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.45376, -8.86959
SMR number
LI037-036----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 pasture, on the desioned landscape of Odell Ville House located 170m to the N. D epicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 30m) defined by a scarp with interior planted with trees. Site indicated with a grove of trees on 1897 ed. OSi 25 inch map, possibly indicating the site of a tree-ring. Monument visible as an oval-shaped area overgrown with trees on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimages. Doubtful antiquity possible demesne landscape feature, or could be the remains of a ringfort reused as a tree-ring associated with Odell Ville House.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

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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