Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doon South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.61474, -8.24415
- SMR number
- LI016-011----
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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
On slight SW-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from SE-S-W. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a penannular-shaped enclosure cut by a field boundary across the outer edge of the NW quadrant. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised subcircular-shaped area (24m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.1m; H 0.6m) and a field boundary. The scarp is visible from N-E-S-W-NW and a linear field boundary running ENE-WSW cuts across the scarp from NW-N. The interior is level, wet and densely overgrown in the NE quadrant. There is no obvious entrance feature. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped, tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.