Earthwork in Dromacummer East, County Limerick

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In reclaimed pasture 40m W of the River Maigue and 80m NW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Knockfenora. Fording point over the River Maigue 125m to the N. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 60m). The 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map shows the partially level monument as a raised semi-shaped area (dims. c. 65m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by a scarp truncated from E-S-SSW by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S and at S by a field boundary running NW-SE. The monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 62m NE-SW; 47m NW-SE) defined by a fosse, intersected at NE by a field boundary running NE-SW on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Outline of monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark 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. and another [LI039-057----] about the central part of the townland' (OSNB Bruree Parish). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 April 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI039-056

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