Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.60811, -8.57052
- SMR number
- LI013-059----
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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 on the SE-facing slope of a large hill, in rolling pasture on uneven ground. The monument is obscured by dense scrub vegetation. It is depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a circular area enclosed by a bank (diam. c. 25m) on 3 quadrants and by a field wall on the E quadrant. It survives as a sub circular area (15m WNW-ESE; 18m N-S) defined to N, E and S by a scarped edge, and not defined at all to W. The scarp (Wth. 2.6m; H 1.1m) has been eroded by cattle and is shallowest to ESE (Wth. 3m). The interior surface is uneven and masked by nettle growth. It slopes slightly down to E. There is a low mound of grass-covered stones (4.8m N-S; 3.8m E-W; H 0.8m) in the E quadrant of the interior, at the edge of the scarp. This appears to be a recent deposition.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 28 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.