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
- 53.88368, -7.99615
- SMR number
- RO018-011----
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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 low drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an overgrown, flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5-4m; Wth of top 2-2.3m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1m) which is reduced to a scarp N-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.6-2.8m; D 0.4-0.8m) ENE-S-WNW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO018-010001-) is c. 90m to the WSW.
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.