Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonkelly, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonkelly
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28682, -8.29891
- SMR number
- LE010-020----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the NE edge of plateau or plug (dims of top: c. 130m N-S; c. 100m E-W). It is not marked on any OS maps but is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 355-4). This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 19m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H 0.35m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and it is overlain by a NNW-SSE field wall towards the perimeter at W while the perimeter NE-SE is at the edge of a precipice.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.