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
- Lisnagrew (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55795, -9.32959
- SMR number
- LI017-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular enclosure bisected by field boundary (axis SW-NE): section to NW levelled c. 1958 but faint trace of enclosing element discernible; section to SE obscured by dense overgrowth of bushes etc. but enclosing element intact. Northwest section defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.55m; Wth 3m) with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth c. 1.3m), and with external bank NE->E (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m). Southeast section enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse: inner bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.7m); flat-bottomed fosse (Wth c. 2.8m); external bank (int. H 2.1m; ext. H 1.1m). Level interior (diam. c. 28m) is covered by dense overgrowth on SE side but is under grass on NW side. Levelled enclosure (LI017-028---) c. 30m to SE.
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. 22/1956).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.