Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dooros (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22269, -8.18065
- SMR number
- GA100-081----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a W-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (64m E-W; 60m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible only at NNE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE through S to NW. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.