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Ringfort - rath

Ballycullane Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballycullane 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
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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David 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)

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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

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

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