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
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54535, -9.20899
- SMR number
- LI018-080----
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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
Atop low rise, in undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.45m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.3m). Entire site covered by dense overgrowth of trees, and undergrowth of bushes and brambles. Field boundary abuts enclosure at NE and NW and incorporates enclosing bank NW->NE. There are numerous cattle breaks in bank, visible through undergrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.