Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromloughan North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromloughan North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55119, -8.68463
- SMR number
- LI022-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level pasture on slight E-facing slope with moderate views in all directions, 134m E of townland boundary with Fearoe, an enclosure (LI022-061----) lies 122m to NE. Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular shaped area (26m N-S; 28.2m E-W ) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) from NNW through E to SSW and by a post-1700 dry stone field boundary from SSW to NNW. The interior of the site is bisected by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth with sections of bank removed at S and W giving access. The monument is visible as a circular enclosure bisected by a field boundary on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/02/2020
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.