Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortroe (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortroe (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53433, -9.00973
- SMR number
- LI019-215----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on low-lying gently undulating terrain. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 1.65m). Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) is best preserved ENE->SW but has been removed NNW->ENE. Outer bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.7m) best preserved along W arc, but lowers at SSW (ext. H 0.35m). Dry-stone field wall abuts external bank at WNW; similar wall run tangentially along outside of external bank E->SE, where it converges with another wall butting outer bank at SE. Interior surface is uneven and covered by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.