Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooniher, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooniher
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79169, -7.87091
- SMR number
- LF008-044----
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 reclaimed grassland 270m ENE of the shoreline of Lough Forbes. Cropmark of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery and various OSI aerial images. The outline of the monument is best preserved on E side where traces of a bank with external fosse are visible.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/09/2019
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ross Waters
Date of upload: 5 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.