Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonmahaan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmahaan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79779, -8.23117
- SMR number
- RO022-086----
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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 on the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 57.5m E-W; 52.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.5-7m; int. H 0.7-1.2m; ext. H 0.8m at E to 1.7m at W) W-N-SE which is reduced to a scarp (H 2m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-7m; Wth of base 1-1.7m; D 1.1-1.4m) WNW-NE. The probable entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at W, and the monument is bisected by a N-S field wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.