Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonshannagh (roscommon By., Creeve Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonshannagh (roscommon By., Creeve Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84416, -8.08981
- SMR number
- RO017-173----
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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
At the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 37m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.7-1.4m; ext. H 1.5-2m) S-N-E, and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. It is circumscribed by a field bank SW-N and by a road bank S-SW. Rath (RO017-172----) is c. 160m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.