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
- 52.49470, -8.88142
- SMR number
- LI029-069----
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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. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.25m); both are heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth. Bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m), worn down by cattle along NW arc, is incorporated into field boundary system SE->SW. Interior, covered with nettles, slopes down very gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.