Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dough (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dough (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.93887, -9.33258
- SMR number
- CL015-092----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a prominent E-W ridge in pasture with a marshy estuary to N and good views in all directions. A subcircular earthen enclosure (int. dims. 28.25m N-S; 28m E-W; overall dims. 58.75m N-S; 53.2m E-W) defined by a bank (av. int. H 0.7m; Wth c. 5m; ext. H up to 2.55m), a steep-sided and flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2-3m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.9-5.1m; ext. H 1-1.25m). A causewayed entrance (Wth 4.25-5.5m; H 0.6m above the fosse) is at E. The interior slopes gently to N. The perimeter is densely overgrown. There are numerous cattle gaps in both banks and some poaching on the external bank at SSW. A second rath (CL015-093----) lies c. 45m to the E.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL015-092----_01.jpg General view from N.
CL015-092----_02.jpg Entrance at E. Rath (CL015-092----) in the background.
CL015-092----_03.jpg Causeway at E. From S.
CL015-092----_04.jpg Fosse at SE.
CL015-092----_05.jpg Fosse and banks at NW. From NE.
CL015-092----_06.jpg Cattle poaching at SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1987).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.