Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lotteragh Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lotteragh Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42285, -8.68814
- SMR number
- LI039-144----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated immediately E of a stream which marks townland boundary with Ballyfookeen. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m) defined by a scarp and shallow external fosse clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. Cultivation ridges running NW-SE are clearly visible running across the interior of the enclosure. Outline of monument clearly visible on Google Earth imagery taken 16/03/2016 and 19/03/2015. Possible ringfort.
See attached images of monument from Google Earth taken 16/03/2016 and 19/03/2015
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.