Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygiltenan Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygiltenan Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55902, -9.27585
- SMR number
- LI017-039----
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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 pasture, on S-facing slope of E-W ridge. Sub-circular area (14m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by much-eroded earth-and-stone bank except SE->SW where edge defined by top line of steep natural incline. Bank best preserved SW->W and NW->N (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m), latter section overgrown with gorse; otherwise bank reduced to low stony rise (Wth c. 4m; H c. 0.25m). Immediately outside bank on N side is E-W field boundary. Interior strewn with loose stones probably derived from eroding bank.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.