Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baunteen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunteen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.37810, -8.23927
- SMR number
- LI050-020----
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 good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank from NW-N-NE, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from SE-S-W-NW. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999, described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a bank from N-E reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere, with fosse (overall Wth at top 2.2m; Wth at base 0.8m; D 0.2m) and external bank (Wth 2.2m, ext. H. 0.4m) from NW-N-NE and E-SE, incorporated into a field boundary (overall Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) from S-W-NW. Interior slopes lightly to NW. NE half of partially levelled monument visible enclosed by a low bank 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: 7 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.