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Ringfort - rath

Boolanlisheen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Boolanlisheen, 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
Boolanlisheen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Boolanlisheen, Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.35824, -8.26105
SMR number
LI050-009----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 improved pasture 70m S of a local road. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Annotated ‘Boolanlisheen’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is shown as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 47m NE-SW, 35m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from N-S-W reduce to a field boundary elsewhere. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 wand hen described as a raised, roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 42m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 8m; H 1.4m) from N-S-W reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere with an external fosse (Wth 1.9m) from N-S-W. Interior slopes sharply to NW. Truncated at N and W by field boundary running NE-SW. Outline of monument is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 4 October 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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