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
- 53.88330, -8.00207
- SMR number
- RO018-009----
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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 floor of a small NW-SE valley with a NNW-SSE stream c. 70m to the E. Circular overgrown area (diam. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) which is strengthened as a field bank SE-SSW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NNW-ESE, with a fosse (Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m) SSW-N-SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO018-008----) is c. 170m to the WSW and rath (RO018-010001-) is c. 210m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.