Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Doon (Bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (Bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96652, -8.83736
- SMR number
- CL018-033003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the top of a hill, c. 55m SW of Doonmulvihill burial ground (CL018-033001-). The base of a solid, rectangular, mortared tower (max. H 2.5m; L at SW 3m; L at NW 2.6m). The SE side has four steps protruding and another at the bottom may be missing. The steps lead to the base of a doorway (Wth 0.6m) through a wall (T 0.6m) indicating that the tower was higher originally. It may have been built by the Butlers of Bunahow (pers. comm. T. Coffey, SMR file).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Coffin-resting stoneunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.