What is recorded here

Earthwork in Dooneen (ballymoe By.) is an earthwork in Dooneen (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as an oval hollow measuring roughly twenty metres north-south and fifteen metres east-west on a gentle east-facing slope. Local tradition holds that a fort stood there until its removal around 1960. The site remains marked only on the 1930 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a circular enclosure.

Marked only on the 1930 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. This is an oval hollow (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W; D 1m), which is known locally to have been a fort removed c. 1960. Earthwork (RO028-129----) is c. 40m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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