Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonkeen (moydow By., Doory Ed), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (moydow By., Doory Ed)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63505, -7.73795
- SMR number
- LF019-101----
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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 gentle S-facing slope on rough ground within a plantation of coniferous trees. A buffer zone of between 10m and 15m has been left unplanted around the monument. A report in 1977 (SMR file) indicates that this raised oval area (c. 28m E–W; c. 22m N–S) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the interior at SSE is an irregularly shaped depression (max. dim. 8m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.