Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonally (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonally (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18373, -8.41794
- SMR number
- SL027-181----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on terrace on an E-facing terrace on a ridge in sharply undulating terrain. Ground rises to W, restricting views, and falls away to E to flat, damp ground.
This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; it is visible in aerial imagery.
It was levelled at an unknown date in the past, but the ephemeral outline of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 28m) can still be traced at ground level, crossed roughly centrally by a N−S field fence/property boundary.
To W of the field fence, a slight curving scarp (Wth slope 3.5-3.8m; ext. H 0.6m) can be traced on the SW arc, petering out at NW to an area of irregular N-sloping ground. To E of the fence, the NE arc can be traced as a levelled scarp (Wth slope c. 4m; ext. H 0.5m) following a natural contour, which becomes increasingly indistinct on the SE arc. There is a rath (SL027-003----) 180m to ESE and a wedge tomb (SL021-054----) 260m to NNW.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère.
Attached images:
SL027-181----_01.JPG viewed from W
SL027-181----_02.JPG viewed from N
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 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.