Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonfad Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfad Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90842, -8.07007
- SMR number
- RO011-084----
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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 of a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 31.2m N-S) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3-5m; int. D 0.4m at E to 0.75m at N; ext. D 0.5-0.7m) from an outer earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4m S-W to 7m at N; ext. H 1.2-1.45m) which is incorporated into a road bank SE-S and is removed S-W. There is an external fosse (Wth at base 3.2m at N to 4.4m at E; D 0.2m at W to 0.7m at E) SW-E, and a modern entrance through the bank at SE.
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.