Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Clooncommon Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncommon Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87882, -8.00405
- SMR number
- RO018-030----
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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
Located in improved pasture towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of a low drumlin. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a low D-shaped rise (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 2.2m; H 0.2m) NE-E-SSW, which is truncated by N-S field bank and hedge at W and by an E-W field bank and hedge at N. There is a fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.05m) E-SSW and there are slight traces of a rush-filled fosse NW-NNW in the field to the W, but there is no visible entrance. The original monument could have a diameter of about 80m.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.