Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dooncaha, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooncaha
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54282, -9.12070
- SMR number
- LI019-172----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on E-facing hill slope. Circular area (25.9m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m); parts of bank covered by dense overgrowth. Bank has been incorporated into field boundary NW->N. At N a recently cut drain exaggerates external bank height. Field boundary skirts bank NNE->SE; enclosure occupies NE corner of field. Gap in bank at NE (W 1.8m) leads into shallow linear depression (D 0.65m; W 1m) which extends on a rough NE/SW axis across interior for 16m before fading out. Otherwise interior level and under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.