Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doohyle More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doohyle More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54557, -8.92034
- SMR number
- LI020-064----
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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
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m). Bank, best preserved at W, is incorporated into field boundary system SE->SW. It has been denuded by cattle to a scarped edge at ESE. Level interior is masked by dense vegetation overgrowth, and littered with loose stone. Stones have been dumped against external bank face at WNW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.