Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncoose (ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncoose (ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74654, -7.78160
- SMR number
- LF013-014----
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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
On a NW-facing slope c. 150m to the S of the Camlin River. Depicted as the E half of a rectangular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. 35.8m) enclosed by a narrow low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.8m; H 0.4m max.), which has been levelled from ESE-SE-S and from NW-N-NNE. The outline of the latter section is still evident. There is no trace of a fosse. A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at S. It is no longer identifiable. The interior, which is heavily waterlogged, slopes appreciably from SE-NW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.