Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doon Upper, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon Upper
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doon Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doon Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.37461, -8.40096
- SMR number
- GA073-073001-
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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 summit of a circular hillock with bogland to N. A very poorly preserved oval platform (E-W 60m, N-S 50m) (GA073-073001-) defined by a scarp. A castle (GA073-073003-) is associated. There is also a local tradition of a 'cave' (possible souterrain, GA073-073002-) but no visible surface trace of it survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.