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
- 52.43806, -8.58881
- SMR number
- LI039-082----
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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 wet pasture 60m S of the townland boundary with Dromin North. Ringfort (LI039-082----) lies 30m to SW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; 42m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from E-S-W reduced to a scarp elsewhere with partial remains of an external fosse at NE only. Outline of poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.