Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Dooneen (Ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooneen (Ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74488, -8.26483
- SMR number
- RO028-129----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1930 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. This is an oval hollow (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W; D 1m), known locally to have been a fort which was removed c. 1960. Earthwork (RO028-128----) is c. 40m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.