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
- Bruree Forts - hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.42496, -8.67040
- SMR number
- LI039-098----
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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.