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Ringfort - rath

Dooneen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dooneen, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dooneen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.17685, -9.11627
SMR number
SL022-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a narrow E-W ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular platform (diam. 27m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.6m; int. H 0.7-0.9m; ext. H 1.4m at E, 2.2m at W). At the external foot of the bank at SW-NW is a fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.9m) with a low counterscarp bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.3m). These latter two features are not evident for the remainder of the circuit. There is a break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at NE and another (Wth 2.6m) at S. In the interior there is a roughly square depression (max. dim. 4m; D 0.4m) against the inner face of the bank at SW. At S a limestone quarry, now disused, encroaches to within 1m of the rath.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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