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
- 52.55230, -8.68318
- SMR number
- LI022-061----
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 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
- 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.