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
- 52.43753, -8.58958
- SMR number
- LI039-081----
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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 80m S of the townland boundary with Dromin North. Possible ringfort (LI039-082----) lies 30m to NE. Dromin church (LI039-079001-) and graveyard (LI039-079001-) 315m to SW Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by a bank with external fosse only indicated from S-SW and from W-NW. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a scrub-covered bank on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 with entrance gap at E. Intersected at SE and W by post-1700 field boundaries as shown on aerial photographs.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph (328) 18.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 29 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 372/12, 13, 14 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.