Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromagarraun, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromagarraun
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54102, -9.21169
- SMR number
- LI018-078----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On slight rise, in undulating marshy pasture. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) W->NE and defined by scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 4m) NE->W, with external fosse around entire circumference. Fosse has recently been widened and deepened to act as part of field drain system WNW->SSE. Elsewhere it is shallow (D 0.4m; Wth 3.7m) and waterlogged. Field boundary and drain skirt fosse at E and S. Interior is level and under grass, but with trees covering NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.