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Ringfort - rath

Clooneen (Blakeny), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clooneen (Blakeny), County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clooneen (Blakeny)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.82100, -8.03145
SMR number
RO023-044----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the crest of a gentle SE-facing slope of a drumlin with shores of Kilglass Lough c. 200m to the SE, 300m to the NE and 400m to the NW. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 62.4m E-W; 57.2m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.4-4.6m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.4m at E to 1.9m at W) which is incorporated into a field bank NE-SSW, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.4-5.2m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 0.5m generally to 1.7m at W) which has been removed outside the field bank NE-SSW. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3m) at ENE, and a pond (dims 5m x 5m) has been dug in the interior just SW of the centre.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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