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Ring-ditch

Tankardstown South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Tankardstown 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
Tankardstown South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40448, -8.61169
SMR number
LI047-012004-

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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 30m S of the townland boundary with Ballygubba. Within the excavated ring ditch (LI047-012005-), cut into Neolithic House Site 2 (LI047-012002-) and 30m W of excavated Neolithic house Site 1 (LI047-012001-). Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. The ring ditch was identified in 1989 during excavation of House 2 (LI047-012002-) by Christine Tarbett and Margaret Gowen and was described as follows; ‘The inner ring ditch had an external diameter of c. 5m. It averaged 1m-1.2m wide and 0.6m-0.8m deep with a very varied sectional profile ranging from a steep V-section to a gently sloping U-section. It lay beneath soils which were indistinguishable from subsoil with no archaeological inclusions. These have been interpreted as upcast mound material from the outer ring ditch' (Tarbett and Gowen 1990, 38-9).

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 1 September

References

Gowen, M. and Tarbett, C. 1990 Tankardstown South, Co. Limerick. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989, 38-9. Wordwell, Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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