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
- 52.93904, -9.33135
- SMR number
- CL015-093----
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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 the E end of a short ridge in fertile pasture, S of a marshy estuary with good views all around. A subcircular enclosure (diam. 23.25m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a round-topped earth and gravel bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.2-0.9m; ext. H 0.5-1.35m) from NNE to NNW. At N it has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m). There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.9m) at ESE with smaller cattle gaps at S and WSW. A fair amount of cattle poaching is evident along the NW and SW sectors as well as at the ESE entrance. The interior is slightly higher in the centre than at the perimeter and slopes down to the N. A band of rushes around the perimeter at S noted on a field inspection in 1998 is only now evident at SW. A bivallate rath (CL015-092----) lies 45m to the W on the same ridge.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL015-093----_01.jpg View from W showing cattle poaching.
CL015-093----_02.jpg View from E with bivallate rath (CL015-092----) in the background.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.