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Ringfort - rath

Ballyfeerode, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyfeerode, 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
Ballyfeerode
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.33075, -8.37595
SMR number
LI057-025----

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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 55m W of the Ahaphuca River that marks the townland boundary with Cullane South. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, roughly oval-shaped, area (dims. c. 52m NW-SE; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse from SW-W-N, incorporated into a field boundary from N-SE. Westropp described this site as ‘a ring-fort with a diamond-shaped annexe’ (1916/17, 22). Visible as an irregular-shaped area delimited by trees on Google Earth orthoimages with faint trace of annexe visible to SSE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 November 2021

References

Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.

Nearby in the register

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

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