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
- 53.94665, -8.10879
- SMR number
- RO011-024001-
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
Towards the top of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 26.5m N-S) defined by a slight but overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1m) NE-SE and a scarp (H 0.7m at S to 1.1m at NE) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.2-0.35m) NE-E-SW visible as a band of wet ground (Wth 3.5m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance, but a house site (RO011-024001-) (int. dims 2.2m E-W; 2m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1-1.2m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) is immediately outside the bank at E. Rath (RO011-025----) is c. 70m to the ESE, rath (RO011-027----) is c. 150m to the SE, rath (RO011-026----) is c. 160m to the S, and rath (RO011-023----) is c. 170m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.