Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lotteragh Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lotteragh Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.42562, -8.67844
- SMR number
- LI039-095----
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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, near base of N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (23.5m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by scarped edge with waterlogged external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 2m). Scarp (H 1.55m; Wth 4m), best preserved W->NE, has been denuded by cattle along SW arc. Fosse, best preserved W->N, widens into pond-like area N->E which is fed by waste pipe at NW. Field boundaries abut scarp at S and N. Entrance (Wth 7m) at SW. Level interior, under pasture, slopes down to SE.
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.