Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonard Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonard Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79993, -8.11965
- SMR number
- RO023-112----
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
Marked as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1837 ed. and as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a slight N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, it is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO023-113----) is c. 65m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.