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
- 52.52988, -8.91643
- SMR number
- LI029-037----
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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 E edge of break in E-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Curved section of earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) remains NW->NE. Bank, covered with mature bushes, is truncated S->NW by field boundary travelling on N-S axis. No surface trace of enclosing element NE->S. Interior, under pasture, slopes down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.