Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Cleenraugh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleenraugh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87727, -8.25439
- SMR number
- RO016-040----
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
Towards the top of the S-facing slope of a small hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 69m E-W; 62m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4-1.7m) WNW-ENE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.05-1.3m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.7-7.6m; Wth of base 4.3-5.5m; D 0.3-0.4m) S-W-NE which is replaced by a field bank and hedge elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO016-013----) is c. 180m to the N, and rath (RO016-039----) is c. 180m to the W.
See the attached aerial image taken from the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.