Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncommon Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncommon Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88278, -8.00534
- SMR number
- RO018-008----
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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 a gentle NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a low earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m; at N: Wth 8.4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.9m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 2.4-2.6m; D 0.6-1.2m) SSE-W-NE, and by a scarp (H c. 2m) elsewhere. An undisturbed portion of the bank (Wth 2m; int. H 2m) survives at SSE. There is a stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.5m) at NNW, but an outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.75m) has been removed since 1984 (SMR file). Rath (RO018-009----) is c. 170m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.