Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doorus, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doorus
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17103, -8.98146
- SMR number
- GA102-026----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in level grassland. This subcircular rath (37m E-W; 34m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. The bank varies in width from 4m E to 9.5m at S and 10m at NW where field-clearance material has been piled against it. Traces of inner stone-facing at visible at S. The interior is featureless apart from a small circular cairn (diam. 2m) in the W half of the interior which may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.