Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonflin Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonflin Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23122, -8.75953
- SMR number
- SL018-047001-
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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 NW-SE rise on top of an E-W ridge. Raised circular platform (44m E-W; 41.5m N-S) defined by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 7.9-8.5m; int. H 1.2-1.5m; ext. H 2.9-3.6m). Enclosing the base of the platform is a fosse (Wth 3.8m; ext. D 0.5-1.5m) which is deepest at S–W. The entrance is at E where there is a break in bank, eroded now to a width of c. 6m, with an accompanying causeway (Wth. 4m) across fosse. Within the W part of the interior is a circular, flat-topped mound (SL018-047002-). Within the SE part of the interior is a linear depression which may mark a collapsed souterrain (see SL018-047003-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.