Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonfad (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfad (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98294, -8.08884
- SMR number
- RO007-056001-
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
Marked as a small rectangular feature only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope, just above the flood plain of Lough Naseer (max. dims c. 680m NE-SW; c. 200m NW-SE) c. 220m to the SE. Rectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 44m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp down to the interior (H 0.4m) at N, an external scarp (H 0.7m) overlain by a tumbled drystone wall at S, a field bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m) at E, and a field bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.1m) and drain at W which extend off to the N and S. The outline of a rectangular structure that may be a house (RO007-056002-) (int. dims 12.6m N-S; c. 10m E-W) defined by drystone tumble and which is open to the W is at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.