Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cloonacolly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacolly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonaun Beg
- Coordinates
- 53.84528, -8.66671
- SMR number
- RO013-029----
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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)
- 1857 · 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
Marked only on the 1914 ed.of the OS 6-inch map where it is named 'Doonaun Beg', and situated on a shelf at the bottom of a S-facing slope at the NW corner of Cloonacolly Lough (dims c. 1-1.3km NW-SE; c. 500-600m NE-SW). Oval grass-covered mound (dims of base 21.6m E-W; 15.6m N-S) which is flat-topped (dims of top 13m E-W; 6.3m N-S; H 1.4m at W to 2m at S). It is slightly quarried around the base at S and on top. The possible crannog (RO013-028----) is c. 180m to the SW, and the mound called Doonaun More (RO013-030----) is on the shore c. 400m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.