What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dooherty, County Roscommon, Ireland. The site occupies a north-facing slope crest within a field system and appears as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map. It measures 23.7 metres east-west and 22.7 metres north-south, bounded by earthen banks 3.3 to 5.1 metres wide. The southeast corner preserves the tallest interior bank at 1.3 metres, while southern and eastern boundaries merged with field banks that probably altered the original shape.

At the crest of a N-facing slope within field system (RO035-015002-). It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a rectangular hachured feature at the SE angle of a field on the 1911 edition, representing the NW quadrant. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 23.7m E-W; 22.7m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3.3-5.1m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.3-1m) which survive best at the SE corner (int. H 1.3m). There are quarries outside the banks at N and W but there is no identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter was integrated with field banks at S and E, which probably altered its shape into its present form. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 12 November 2018

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