Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doorus, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doorus
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16857, -8.98291
- SMR number
- GA102-028----
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
In level pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m); partially levelled by the time of 3rd edition (1922). All that survives is the arc of a double-faced drystone wall (Wth 3m; H 1.6m) from S through W to NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.