Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doon (maryborough West By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (maryborough West By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.96033, -7.37882
- SMR number
- LA017-017----
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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 a marshy, low-lying area. It is a slight depression on the NE side of a natural ridge, possibly site of a non-archaeological feature. Depicted on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map as a semicircular bank of an enclosure (approx. diam. 35m N-S) surviving from N through E to S only, not depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.