Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonkelly, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonkelly
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27797, -8.31146
- SMR number
- LE010-049----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a small embanked circular feature (ext. diam. c. 20m) only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a SW-facing slope overlooking the N shore of Doon Lough c. 130m to the S. This is an overgrown subcircular area (int. diam. 24m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) intermittently reduced to a scarp. There is no identifiable original entrance.
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
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.