Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doon (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Coolfadda Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Coolfadda Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.24248, -8.48713
- SMR number
- GA098-091----
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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 a SE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.5m-6m; int. H 0.4m-0.95m; ext. H 1.45m-1.7m) survives from NNE through E to SSW. The fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.35m) survive from NE to E. The W portion of the monument is obscured by a number of field banks. Lazy beds, running WNW-ESE, are visible within the interior. A small roughly rectangular area (L 4.8m; Wth 2.5m) defined by a stony bank in the N half may be the last vestiges of a house site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.