Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dooneen (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooneen (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88899, -8.30839
- SMR number
- RO016-001----
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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 level landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 36m) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE-S-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere, separated by a fosse (Wth of base 8-9m; D 0.1m at E to 0.6m at NW) from an outer bank (Wth 8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m) that only survives N-NE. An enlarged entrance (Wth 6m) and causeway are at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.