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Ringfort - rath

Lotteragh Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lotteragh Upper, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lotteragh Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Bruree Forts - hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.42496, -8.67040
SMR number
LI039-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on W bank of Maigue river. Site is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. A recent farm trackway seems to have truncated its N edge; it is bounded to E by field boundary and to W by driveway. Area immediately NW of site has been planted with coniferous trees. Westropp (1916-7, 487-8, plate 40) describes site as raised roughly circular area (diam. 17.2m), with low bank (H 0.6m) along edge, defined by scarped edge (H at NE 8.4m, elsewhere c. 4.8m); outside this is fosse, bank and second fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 1.8m). According to Seoighe (2000, 209-10) known locally, together with adjacent site (LI039-101---), as the Raheens 'a name derived from the Irish, Raithini, meaning "little forts"'. Listed by O Riordain (1974, 21) as example of 'platform-type ring-fort'. Located 150m WNW from companion site (LI039-101---)
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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