Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghan (clonlisk By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghan (clonlisk By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03873, -7.84050
- SMR number
- OF038-024----
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 a natural rise in undulating countryside with nearby ringfort (OF038-023----) to the E. Large circular area (diam 53m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved inner fosse (Wth 1m) visible only from E to S with outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1.5m; int. H 0.3m) of stone construction surviving as a field boundary from E through S to SW elsewhere it is degraded to a scarp. No evidence of an outer fosse or entrance feature.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.