Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dooherty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooherty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70963, -8.19953
- SMR number
- RO035-008----
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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 gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 40.5m N-S; 34.7m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m at N to 4.8-5m generally; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1.6-1.9m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.8-9.4m; Wth of base 3-3.4m; D 0.4m at E to 0.7m at S to 1.6m at W) NE-S-NW from an outer bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.1m at S to 0.6m at W) NE-E and S-NW. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 2.1m) at NNE, the lowest point of the interior. Rath (RO035-009001-) is c. 130m to the S. Archaeological testing (09E0275) c. 100m to the NE failed to produce any related material (Carey 2012).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Carey, A. 2012 Dooherty: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 182, No. 701. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.