Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonmadden, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmadden
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24947, -8.80110
- SMR number
- SL012-063----
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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
Situated on a naturally-occurring rise in an area of undulating pasture, with a gentle fall of ground towards a stream c. 40m to E. Raised circular area (24.2m NW-SE; 22.3m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m, at NW) of earth and stone which is upstanding only at W and NW. Elsewhere the bank has been reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1.7m at SE). At the outer foot of the bank at W are traces of a possible fosse (Wth. c. 3.5m). Original entrance not reocgnisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.