Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncommon More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncommon More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88328, -7.99805
- SMR number
- RO018-010001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 SW-facing slope of a low drumlin with a small NNW-SSE stream c. 90m to the W. Circular overgrown area (diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) which has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.1-1.2m) W-ENE, and a complete outer fosse (Wth of base 1.1-1.2m; D 0.3-0.6m) which has been re-cut as a deep drain (Wth of base 2-2.2m; D 1.3-1.4m) E-S-W. There is no visible entrance. Mass-rock (RO018-010002-) is just outside the fosse at SE, rath (RO018-009----) is c. 210m to the W, and rath (RO018-011----) is c. 90m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.