Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blossomhill (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blossomhill (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52790, -8.91783
- SMR number
- LI029-034----
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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 gentle S-facing slope, immediately to N of farmyard. Circular area (26m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank NW->SW but truncated SW->NW by dry-stone field boundary travelling N-S (interior now 21.5m E-W). Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m), heavily masked by overgrowth, becomes quite linear NW->NNE. Gap in bank (Wth 3.2m) at SSE. Interior, covered with thistles, slopes down to SW. Just N of centre are six metal uprights, embedded in concrete, which formerly were part of a hay barn.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.