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Ringfort - rath

Ballyagran, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyagran, 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
Ballyagran
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.40407, -8.78657
SMR number
LI046-011----

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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, at foot of S facing slope; area immediately to S and E low-lying and poorly drained with remains of shallow quarry now covered by scrub and thorn. A roughly circular raise platform (27.2m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 2m). The enclosing element varies in nature due to the sloping ground against which it is built. On N side in an intervening fosse (Wth 2m) and an external bank (H 0.95m; Wth 2.2m), whereas on SE side is a second (H 1.2m; Wth 2m) and third (H 1.3m; Wth 2m) scarped edge. There is a very slight indication of an external fosse (Wth c. 3m; D c. 0.1m) around the entire enclosure. There is no evident entrance of an entrance though a number of paths have been worn through the enclosing element bu cattle. The enclosing element is covered by trees and scrub with some erosion evident from poaching. The interior has a noticeably uneven surface and there is a shallow quarry on its E side (9m x 4m; D 0.8m).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 29 August 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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