Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonsillagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsillagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88254, -8.04685
- SMR number
- RO017-062001-
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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
On the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m at N to 1.1m at E) WNW-E-S and by a carp (H 0.9m) and hedge elsewhere which acts as a field bank, with a complete outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8-6m; Wth of base 2m at N to 4.1m at E; D 0.3-0.5m) which is extended into a pond NW-E. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-061----) is c. 100m to the NW, and rath (RO017-064001-) is c. 180m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.