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
- 52.54389, -9.22428
- SMR number
- LI018-075----
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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 pasture, at foot of E-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now truncated on NE side by field boundary and trackway. Surviving interior (diam. 23.4m E-W) is enclosed by flat-topped earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.3m; Wth 2.8m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.6m) E->N. Break in bank at E (Wth 3.2m). Interior is level and covered by tall grass. Immediately inside entrance is slight depression in which is embedded some limestone boulders.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.