Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doocatteen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doocatteen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.47111, -9.08127
- SMR number
- LI036-015----
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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 undulating pasture. Circular area (19.2m N-S: 21.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.25m; Wth 1.45m). Interior level, under marshy pasture and heavily poached by cattle, with some overgrowth along edges. Located 12m to NW is waterlogged circular depression (36.4m N-S; 39.2m E-W; D 1.45m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.