Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
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
- 54.27859, -8.30461
- SMR number
- LE010-050----
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 only on the OS 25-inch map of 1870 as a hachured curved line (C c. 30m) N-E-S, and located towards the bottom of the steep S and SE-facing slope of the prominent Doon hill. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 44m NW-SE; c. 34m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.9-4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m) SW-N-SE, merging into an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.25m) at N, and reduced to a slight scarp E-S. The original entrance is not identified.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.