Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cleaheen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleaheen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96693, -8.09883
- SMR number
- RO007-083----
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
On the top and the S-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge overlooking the River Shannon, which is c. 200m to the E and S. Circular overgrown area (diam. 22m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-5-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.3-1m), which is incorporated into a field bank E-S-W, with an outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.2-0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.2-0.5m) N-ENE. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.