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
- 52.47196, -9.06766
- SMR number
- LI036-023----
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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 level pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 37.2m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 3.25m). Internal bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.35m) completes full circuit, but external bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.55m) extant only SSE->W though probably incorporated into field boundary which skirts site NW->E. Gap (Wth 2.5m) in internal bank at N. Gap in both banks at S (Wth 2m). A recently constructed causeway (Wth 4m) crosses fosse at W. Gap (Wth 2.7m) in external bank at W. External bank abutted by E-W running field boundary at SSE. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.