Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Droughtville, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Droughtville
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11287, -7.76396
- SMR number
- OF036-086----
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
Situated in grassland with good views in all directions. Possible ringfort (approx. int. diam. 50m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph as a circular-shaped area defined by an earthen bank with external fosse best preserved at SW. On Google Earth imagery dating from 2017 indicates that the E side of the monument has been levelled possibly as a result of ploughing. Cultivation ridges running E-W across the interior of the monument are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey
Date of upload: 3 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.