Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barna, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barna
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.37173, -8.24771
- SMR number
- LI050-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on slight NW-facing slope with excellent views from S-NNE, 20m NE of the River Aherlow that forms townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. An enclosure (LI050-012---) lies 110m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SE-S-W-NW. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999, described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (23.7m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Overall Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.45m) with waterlogged fosse incorporated into a field boundary. Possible entrance gap (Wth 3.1m) at NNE and modern gap (Wth 1.3m) at W. Overgrown interior slopes slightly to NW but raised slightly to compensate for natural slope. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.