Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromacummer East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromacummer East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44255, -8.66571
- SMR number
- LI039-057----
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 280m E of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Dromacummer West. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a raised irregular-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a fosse only visible from SE-S-SW, intersected at W by the former Limerick to Chareville railway track running NW-SE. Scrub-covered monument visible immediately E of the former railway track on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Recorded in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as one of '2 ancient forts, one in the S. [LI039-056----] and another about the central part of the townland' (OSNB Bruree Parish).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 April 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.