Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooneen (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90906, -8.40895
- SMR number
- RO009-039----
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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
In a low-lying landscape on the W bank of the SE-NW Breedoge River. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 45m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.55-4.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.45m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3-4.7m; D 0.35-1.45m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.4-5m; H 0.5-1m). There is no visible entrance. The site is eroded away by the river a NE, and all features are missing N-SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.