Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Clooneen (shrule By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (shrule By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55191, -7.68159
- SMR number
- LF027-063----
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. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 34m) intersected at W by a post-1700 field boundary visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Cultivation-ridges running NE-SW clearly visible running across monument on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 10 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.