Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ardroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56675, -8.41593
- SMR number
- LI023-270----
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
On undulating pasture 165m W of the townland boundary with Dromkeen and 290m S of the townland boundary with Curraghavearna. Moated site (LI023-057----) located 310m to S. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps and is not visible on OSi orthoimages. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 253; AP 4/3685) as a circular enclosure most likely a ringfort (ext. diam. c. 30m). The enclosure is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 where recent clearance of field boundaries E of the enclosure is visible.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 253 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 4 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.