Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Doonmoon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmoon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42828, -8.44587
- SMR number
- LI040-109----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 180m S of townland boundary with Elton. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a sub-circular shaped earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, Strip Map 4, Site 4/24) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 32m N-S; 25m E-W) intersected at N by a relic watercourse running E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/04/2019.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.