Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doohatty, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doohatty
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95657, -6.72686
- SMR number
- MO031-076----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a small rise close to the bottom of an E-facing slope. This is a circular wooded area (diam. 39.5m N-S; 38.5m E-W) with a domed centre defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.25m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 0.85m) from an outer bank (Wth 1.7m; ext. H 0.3m) at NW, but the outer bank may be recent. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (at S: H 1.8m) elsewhere, and an original entrance is not identified.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 31 July 2017
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.