Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cloonacolly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacolly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonaunmore
- Coordinates
- 53.84390, -8.66090
- SMR number
- RO013-030----
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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
Indicated as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a mound named 'Doonaunmore' on the 1914 ed. At the bottom of a S-facing slope on the NE shore of Cloonacolly Lough (dims c. 1-1.3km NW-SE; c. 500-600m NE-SW), c. 50m from the shore. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered mound (dims of base 25.5m E-W; 20m N-S) with a flat top (dims 15.6m E-W; 12.5m N-S; H 2.5m at N to 4.3m at S) which has an excavated, grass-covered hollow (diam. of base 2.7m; D 0.8m) at the centre. The mound Doonaun Beg (RO-013-029----) is on the shore c. 400m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.