Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19669, -8.18717
- SMR number
- LE015-145----
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 towards the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (dims 44m E-W; 40m N-S; int. dims 37.4m E-W; 33.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6-7.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m at N to 1.6-1.8m generally), with evidence of an external fosse (Wth of base 2-3.7m; ext. D 0.5-0.9m) which was recut as a drain (Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.5-1m) S-W. The entrance (Wth 2m) may have been at S and the site is circumscribed by a field bank E-S.
See the attached aerial view taken from the E.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.