Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockdromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55210, -8.87785
- SMR number
- LI020-085----
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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 SE-facing slope, below brow of low hill. Circular area (diam. 30.5m) enclosed by earthen bank NW->NNE and defined by scarped edge NNE->NW, with outer fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.5m) SE->WSW. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved at N, has a much worn down outer face due to cattle traffic. Scarp (H 1.4m), best preserved along SE arc, lowers at S to match narrow causeway (Wth 3m) across fosse. A wire fence runs across base of scarp and fosse S->WSW. Line of removed field boundary can be traced as shallow depression running as a chord across N edge of interior and crossing enclosing element NW-NE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.