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Ringfort - rath

Ballygeagoge, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballygeagoge, 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
Ballygeagoge
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured, Souterrain
Coordinates
52.34591, -8.48577
SMR number
LI056-013----

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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 the SE facing slope of Mortlestown Hill, 40m W of townland boundary with Ballinlyna Lower. ‘Cahir Mortle’ (LI056-011001-) and ringfort (LI056-011002-) lie 500m to the NW and a stone circle (LI056-014----) lies 264m to the E. 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 raised D-shaped area defined by a scarp from SE-S-W-N-NE with fosse and bank with external fosse from SE-S-W-NW incorporated into a field boundary. A souterrain (LI056-013001-) is shown in W quadrant on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). Monument visible as circular shaped area defined by a tree-lined fosse with bank from SE-S-W-NW, intersected at N by a trackway running roughly E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 23 November 2021

References

O’Shaughnessy, D.F. and Carroll, P. 1931 Tara Luachra. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 36, No. 144, 69-75.

Nearby in the register

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

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