Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dysert, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysert
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60177, -9.05750
- SMR number
- LI010-075----
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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
On low rise, in low-lying pasture. Roughly oval area (34m N-S; 28.7m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.7m) N->SW, but bank overlain or replaced by field boundary SW->NW, and bank removed NW->N leaving gap (Wth 9.7m). Field boundary which overlies enclosing bank on W side continues to run immediately outside bank elsewhere except for gap at N which corresponds to removed section of bank. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.