Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymorrisheen (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymorrisheen (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56716, -8.93380
- SMR number
- LI020-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 W-facing slope falling into marshy area. Site depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Ground surface in vicinity of site is very uneven, with low humps and dips abounding, but no clear outline of an enclosure could be ascertained.
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.