Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doon North,lissowen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon North,lissowen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisselim
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisselim, hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.61458, -8.22284
- SMR number
- LI016-014----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On high ground on NE-facing slope of elevated land, in rough pasture with forestry abutting to the immediate N. Annotated 'Lisselim' and bisected by townland boundary running E-W on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (25m E-W; 21m N-S) with townland boundary of Doon North forming N enclosing element of monument. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped, scrub-covered enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. The Google Earth orthoimage shows new forestry planted to E, S and W.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.