Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonowney, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonowney
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.36760, -8.54521
- SMR number
- SL005-103----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture to the S of a small old farmyard. Views are excellent in all directions. Raised circular area (diam. 24m) defined by a modern drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.4m). At the base of the wall, on the exterior side, is a low scarp of collapsed limestone rubble (Wth 1.3m; ext. H 1.4m). A break in the wall at WNW (Wth 1.5m) may mark the position of the original entrance. There is a modern break in the wall at SE (Wth 1.4m). A modern NW-SE orientated drystone field wall links to the cashel wall at NW and at ESE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.