Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromard Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromard Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49993, -8.90532
- SMR number
- LI029-066----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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, at N edge of break in N-facing hill slope. Circular area (30m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks with intervening fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2m). Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m), best preserved along SE arc, has boulders dumped along top at ENE. Outer bank (ext. H 0.6m) survives SW->NE, and is incorporated into field boundary system SW->NW. Breaks in inner (Wth 3.6m) and outer (Wth 1m) banks at NNE. Fosse, best preserved and waterlogged SW->N, can only be tentatively traced SE->SW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to W.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.