Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonflin Lower, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonflin Lower
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23842, -8.75942
- SMR number
- SL018-044001-
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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 at the E side of a low rise in pasture. Raised subrectangular area (29.8m N-S; 25.2m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.1- 0.2m; ext. H 0.55-0.6m) which from E-S has been modified and incorporated into a modern, although now-disused, NE-SW field boundary. Other, probably later features, include the rendering of the outer face of the bank with large stones at E and a short length of free-standing bank (Wth 0.8-1.1m; H 0.3m) at SE. A break (Wth. 2m) in the bank at NE may represent an original entrance. In the level W half of the interior is the remains of a possible house (SL018-044002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.