Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tooraree Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooraree Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54327, -9.22468
- SMR number
- LI018-074----
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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, at foot of E-facing slope. Formerly circular enclosure (diam. 20.8m N-S) is now truncated on E side by N-S field boundary (boundary to enclosing bank: 15.7m E-W). Site is enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m) with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 1.6m), now surviving SE->NE. Breaks in bank at SSW and W used by cattle accessing interior. Interior, marshy and covered with rushes, slopes down to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.