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
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90563, -8.07909
- SMR number
- RO011-118----
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
On top of a small NE-SW drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 39.5 N-S; 31.1m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E and S to 1.5m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) WNW-N. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter is incorporated into a field boundary and hedge W-N. Rath (RO011-118001-) is immediately to the NE.
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.