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Ringfort - rath

Cloonteem, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonteem, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloonteem
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.91190, -8.00282
SMR number
RO012-029----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a generally level area of a gently undulating pasture landscape. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a low scarp (at N: Wth c. 2.3m; H c. 0.15m; at S: Wth 2m; H 0.25m), with traces of a fosse (at N: Wth of top 5.1m; Wth of base Wth 1.2m; ext. D 0.1m) SW-W-NNE. There is no visible entrance. Outside the perimeter and curving around it SW-NW are the remnants of a field bank and hedge while a NW-SE field bank and hedge is just to the NE. The Jamestown Canal, which cuts off a loop of the River Shannon to the N is c. 110m to the S, and the W shore of Lough Nanoge (dims c. 400m E-W; c. 300m N-S) on the W bank a N-S section of the River Shannon is c. 300m to the E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 May 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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