Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Feagh (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feagh (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knocknadoon
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknadoon
- Coordinates
- 53.13506, -8.40184
- SMR number
- GA116-054----
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 rise in pastureland, c. 200m to the ENE of Duniry village. Known locally as ‘Daire's Hill’. The OS Letters record that the name of the parish in Irish is ‘Dún Doighre’ and that the 'doon' which originally bore that name is on 'Knockadoon, Cnoc a dúin' (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 490). It consists of a poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 40m) defined by a scarp (H 2.3m max.) which appears to fade into the natural hillslope from NW to NE. The W sector has been disturbed by quarrying. A church (GA116-076----) lies c. 250m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.