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Ringforts in Ireland, astonishing historical heritage
Posted by mapman029 on 19 July 2021 in English.Hi,
Ireland will be my future land so i decided to help people out-there.
When i was mapping some hedges, which is my specialities, i discover some strange rings, everywhere in the irish country-side. I supposed it’s fortification, so i done some research and found this, in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringfort
In the article this sentence attracked me : “In Ireland, over 40,000 sites have been identified as ringforts and it is thought that at least 50,000 ringforts existed on the island”.
WHAT ??!!
It could be quite common for you guys, Irish women and men, but i have decided to help you to map this historical heritage. I think you’ll need some extra help to mapp all these historical sites.
See you
Discussion
Comment from Endres Pelka on 19 July 2021 at 20:04
Yes, these are very interesting land features. Ringforts in Northern Europe, gords in Slavic countries… If you know of some, start mapping them!
I can see you started mapping the ringforts with just those tags:
area=yes historic=yesThe more suitable tagging is:
historic=archaeological_site site_type=fortification fortification_type=hill_fortJust like this one :)
Comment from mapman029 on 19 July 2021 at 21:13
Thanks for the tips about the tag, i corrected them.
Comment from SK53 on 20 July 2021 at 08:11
You may wish to check out the twitter account @everyringfort: they are tweeting all of them from official records. Sacly quite a few have been lost to the plough since the GSGS 3906 maps (available in editors) were compiled.
Comment from Vincent de Phily on 21 July 2021 at 14:17
Don’t confuse hill_fort and ringfort. Ireland mostly has the later.
We have a few more subtags, but they aren’t very standardized yet (check taginfo) and some are quite technical.
You might also want to check our resident archaeological expert’s youtube videos which have interesting Ireland-specific info about tagging and sources.