Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46700, -9.00587
- SMR number
- LI036-043----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating pasture. Formerly circular enclosure now truncated on W side by N-S field boundary. Site (31m N-S; 26.3m E-W) now defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 1m) NW->SW, with waterlogged external fosse N->E (D 0.6m; Wth 5m), and counterscarp bank (H 0.25m) N->NE. Interior level and clear of overgrowth; used as foddering area for cattle. A deep spring (3m E-W; 4m N-S) lies just inside scarped edge at SW. No trace of enclosure on W side of field boundary.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.