Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonloughan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonloughan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43313, -10.14518
- SMR number
- GA048-009----
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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 Doonloughaun Lough amidst a group of small islands to SE of a promontory. Known locally as a 'fort', this small subcircular island (WSW-ENE 14m; NNW-SSE 12.5m) is defined by a collapse of loose stone. The interior rises towards the centre and at SE is an enigmatic circular platform (D 6.7m) of natural rock outcrop, possibly a habitation area. At N, a stone causeway (L 8m, Wth 1m) leads to a nearby small natural island. A natural shelf of rock outcrop at S may have been used as a landing place.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.