Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derraulin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derraulin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.43517, -8.73393
- SMR number
- LI038-132----
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 pasture, atop low rise. Circular area (29m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 3.3m) with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 2.6m). Field boundaries abut enclosure at N and NW. Enclosing element and interior masked by dense overgrowth of briars, bushes and nettles. Fosse at S used as dump for old cars. Moated site (CO038-133---) c. 20m to NE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.