Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cleenraugh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleenraugh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87269, -8.26242
- SMR number
- RO016-041----
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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)
- 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
On the crest of an E-W spur. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 27.5m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m at W to 4.5m at S; int. H 0.2m at W to 0.55m at S; ext. H 1.4-1.75m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.45m) NW-N, separated by a fosse (Wth of base 4m at S to 6.6m at N) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.2m; int. H 0.8-1.7m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) NW-E-W. The entrance through the inner (Wth 6m) and outer (Wth 5.5m) banks is at E.
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.