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Ringfort - rath

Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drombanny, 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
Drombanny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.61347, -8.59527
SMR number
LI013-049----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Situated on a slight knoll, in low-lying poorly drained pasture, in the valley of the Ballynaclough River, which runs c. 60m S of the site. It is depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a sub-oval area (diam. c. 35m WNW-ESE; c. 30m N-S) defined by a scarped edge. The entire monument is now covered by dense scrub vegetation. The scarp (Wth 2m; D 0.5m) is evident all round, and is eroded by cattle is places. At NNE the scarp is slightly shallower (Wth 4m), and there is a gap (Wth 0.9m) at NNW. The external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2m) is partly obscured at NNE by a dump of rubble and some large rocks have recently been dumped into the fosse at SSW. The interior slopes down gently to the S.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 28 March 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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