Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doorlus, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doorlus
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.47229, -8.74530
- SMR number
- LI038-036----
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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. Roughly circular area (40m E-W) truncated on NW side by SW-NE field boundary, otherwise defined by scarped edge (H 0.9m; Wth 3.3m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.1m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.45m). Interior, under pasture, slopes up gently towards centre. Gap (Wth 3m) in counterscarp bank at E; outside this two low parallel earthen banks, 3m apart, run for c. 25m.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.