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Ringfort - rath

Grange Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grange Lower, 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
Grange Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured - Indicated (1938)
Coordinates
52.65517, -8.51288
SMR number
LI006-036----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 flat grassland, 120m SW of the townland boundary with Grange Upper, as depicted on 1840 OS 6-inch map, and 10m E of a railway track visible on Digital Globe orthoimage. Depicted on the 1840 OS map as a circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 35m; ext. diam. 53m) enclosed by a bank with post-1700 field boundary radiating out from N and S of monument. The ringfort is depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank and external ditch with causewayed entrance (approx. Wth 6m) at SW. The monument is visible today as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp with outer fosse on Digital Globe aerial photography taken 2011-13. This orthoimage shows that the enclosing bank has been reduced to a scarp with traces of a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE across the SW quadrant of the monument. Outline of levelled monument barely visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018 and 19/11/2019.

See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018, 19/11/2019 and 06/02/2018

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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