Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonis, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonis
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52567, -7.84588
- SMR number
- WM015-007----
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
Situated on E facing slope of a hill with wide views of the surrounding countryside from N-E-S. Ringfort (WM015-006---) 150m to N, ringfort (WM015-008---) 100m to SW. A circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NW-SE) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse that is visible only at W and N. There is an entrance gap in the inner bank at E. The interior slopes appreciably from W-E. Field fences intersect the monument at N, E, S and W.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.