Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonyquin (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonyquin (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80682, -8.23989
- SMR number
- RO022-065001-
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 a rise in an undulating landscape. Oval platform (28.5m N-S; 23m E-W) sloping from the centre down to the E (H of slope 2m) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E to 2.2m at S) with some bushes. There is no visible bank or fosse, but the ramp entrance (Wth 3.2m) is at SW. A rectangular house site (RO022-065002-) (ext. dims 12.5m N-S; 5.2m E-W) divided into two rooms is visible as wall-footings (Wth 0.65-1m) on the perimeter at NW. There are quarry trenches (Wth 2.4-3m; D 0.3m) outside the E and S walls of the house. Rath (RO022-064----) is c. 170m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.