Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dohora, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dohora
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.48628, -8.71220
- SMR number
- LI030-112----
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
In pasture, 500m SE of a townland boundary with Carrow. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork that is bisected by a townland boundary separating two parts of Dohora townland. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (53m N-S; 55m E-W) with townland boundary no longer shown. Described in the SMR file as a ditched enclosure. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.