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Ringfort - rath

Barna, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Barna, 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
Barna
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.37605, -8.24346
SMR number
LI050-016----

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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 pasture, on slight NW-facing slope with excellent views from W-NE, 50m SW of a watercourse that forms townland boundary with Baunteen. An enclosure (LI050-017---) lies 175m to the N. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp and truncated in the NW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999, described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) enclosed by a bank (Overall Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.85m) from NE-E-S-SW, external bank from N-E-S (Overall Wth 3m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.4m)and intervening fosse (Wth at base 2m) from N-E-S-W. Intersected from W-N by a stream running NE-SW. Possible entrance gap (Wth 4.1m) at S and modern gap (Wth 1.5m) at SE. Interior level, wet and densely overgrown. Tree-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: 5 November 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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