Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.61076, -8.58073
- SMR number
- LI013-117----
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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
On a S-facing slope in rolling pasture, immediately NW of a farm track. The monument, depicted on the OS 1840 map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled but is still evident as a sub-oval area (c. 19.8m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.2m; H 0.2m) in the W, S and SE. An earthen bank (Wth 1.75m; H 0.1 -0.2m) runs NE-SW c. 4.5m W of the site; this may be the remains of an old field boundary. There is a steeper natural break in slope c. 5m E of the site. There is an area of quarrying c. 5m to the N, and c. 20m to the N is an area where topsoil and builders rubble have recently been dumped.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 31 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.