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Ringfort - rath

Ballycurragh, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballycurragh, County Offaly, 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
Ballycurragh
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.03200, -7.79459
SMR number
OF039-033----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Formerly situated in poorly drained just E of the Fuarawn river, with earthwork (OF039-024----) 140m to the E. No surface remains visible, site was levelled in 1978 (Cunningham 1978, 127). Cunningham (1987, 126-7) described this levelled monument as a raised circular-shaped earthwork (H 5m; top diam. 40m) enclosed at its base by a fosse. Depicted as a circular earthwork or platform on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 25-inch OS map the monument is shown as a circular enclosure, possibly a ringfort [raised rath type], consisting of a raised interior enclosed by an earthen bank reduced to a scarp from N to E and an external fosse.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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