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
- 53.94630, -8.10695
- SMR number
- RO011-025----
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
At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 31.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3-1.4m) SW-NW and a scarp (H 1m at S to 1.6m at E) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3.1-3.5m; D 0.25m) visible as lush vegetation N-E. There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) at SE. Rath (RO011-024001-) is c. 70m to the WNW, and rath (RO011-027----) is c. 70m to the S.
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.