Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonycoy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonycoy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.25406, -8.81785
- SMR number
- SL012-056----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low rise in lowlying pasture, c. 50m S of a rocky shoreline. Raised circular area (diam. 46.7m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth. 4.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H, at NW) which is best preserved on the N half of the rath. Original entrance may have been at W where there is a wide break (Wth. 3.4m) in the bank, which is partially blocked by a modern N-S field boundary.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.