Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycullane Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycullane Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissagutta- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56107, -9.33414
- SMR number
- LI017-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating pasture. Circular area (24m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 3m) with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth c. 5m) and external bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.45m). According to local information monument levelled-out to present form c. 1958. Enclosure under grass but differential growth-pattern (darker grass and concentration of weeds) accentuates line of fosse. External bank truncated NE->SE by field drain.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 21/1956).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.