Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmoylan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmoylan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55012, -9.07363
- SMR number
- LI019-103----
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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
In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope towards stream. Circular area (32m N-S; 33.7m E-W) enclosed by two concentric banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.8m). Inner earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.65m), best preserved NW->NE, lowers ESE->SE where there is a causeway across fosse (Wth 6.1m). Outer earth-and-stone bank (ext. H 0.3m), best preserved SW->ESE, is not evident SSE->SSW. Fosse becomes very shallow SSW->SSE, probably because infilled with levelled outer bank material at this point. Level interior under pasture. An earthen bank (H 0.6m) abuts outer bank at ESE; this travels for 14m in SSE direction before turning E and running for a further 31m where it is truncated by a dry-stone field wall.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.