Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Dromloughan North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromloughan North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55408, -8.68576
- SMR number
- LI022-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture on slight E-facing slope with moderate views in all directions, immediately E of townland boundary with Fearoe. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed (approx. diam. 38m) by a bank. Not marked on 1897ed. OS 25-inch map, likely that monument was levelled between the map dates. No surface remains visible. Faint trace of monument visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2020, OSi orthophotos 2005-2012 and Digital Globe orthoimages 2011-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/02/2020
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.