Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doon (castlerahan By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (castlerahan By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87152, -7.06868
- SMR number
- CV033-023----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised almost circular area (int. diam. c. 19m) enclosed by two much-denuded low earthen banks with intermediate fosse. Outer bank and fosse difficult to identify from N-E-S. Original entrance not recognisable. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) described a stone ditch 'driven across the centre' which 'partly interrupts the bank'. Densely overgrown with vegetation.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.