Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonard More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonard More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79663, -8.13196
- SMR number
- RO023-111----
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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
Just off the crest of a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36m E-W; 33.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.1-5.6m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.4-2.1m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.6m at S to 9.2m at E; Wth of base 3.1-4.2m; D 1m at S to 1.8m at E) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 2.4m; ext. H 0.7m; at E: Wth 5.5m; ext. H 0.8m). There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 3m) and outer (Wth 5m) banks with a causeway (Wth 4m) at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.