Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromin South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43401, -8.59581
- SMR number
- LI039-078----
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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 improved pasture immediately W of a field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Wellfield. Trinity Well (LI039-077----) lies 300m to NW and church (LI039-079001-) 270m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 18m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. The monument is visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP (272) 17) taken 16/05/2003 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 as a raised oval-shaped platform intersected at W by a field boundary running NW-SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 372/17 on 10/05/2003
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.