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
- 52.56249, -9.27445
- SMR number
- LI017-040----
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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 N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still perceptible as oval area (30m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by low broad rise (H c. 0.2m; Wth c. 11m) in field of tall grass. According to local information levelled in early 1990s when surrounding field boundaries were removed.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.