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Ringfort - rath

Doon South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Doon South, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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