Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonskeeveen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonskeeveen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94604, -8.11179
- SMR number
- RO011-023----
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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
Towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 31m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 1.5m at W to 2.3m at E; int. H 0.2m generally to 0.65m at NE and SE; ext. H 0.6m at W to 1.3m at NE) with trees which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.65-0.9m) at WNW and N and incorporated into a field bank SE-S. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO011-024----) is c. 170m to ENE, and rath (RO011-026----) is c. 190m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.