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Ringfort - rath

Dromloughan North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dromloughan North, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromloughan North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.55230, -8.68318
SMR number
LI022-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 gently undulating pasture with moderate to poor views in all directions,166m E of townland boundary with Fearoe, enclosures (LI022-060/-059----) lie 122m to SW and 200m to NW respectively. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure bisected by a public road running E-W. Present remains consists of slightly raised circular shaped area (22m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m) the interior of which is bisected by a public road (Wth 4.3m) running E-W through the site. The N half of the interior is level, lightly overgrown and strewn with rocks. The S half is undulating, strewn with small rocks and overgrown. The monument is visible overgrown with trees bisected by the road on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020 and 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 5 August 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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