Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncruffer, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncruffer
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05685, -8.19780
- SMR number
- RO003-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a drumlin. Circular grass and rush-covered but poached area (diam. 27m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.4-6.4m; int. H 0.1m at N to 0.6m at W; ext. H 1m at N to 1.4m generally) which is reduced to a scarp NNE-ENE. There is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.2m) with traces of an outer bank (Wth 2.6m; ext. H 0.2m) W-NW, and the entrance (Wth 3m) is at ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.