Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Clooneen (blakeny), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (blakeny)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81597, -8.04153
- SMR number
- RO023-101----
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
At S end of a broad NE-SW ridge with the S-N Mountain River c. 250m to the W and Kilglass Lough c. 300m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 98m E-W; 94m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.4m at E to 1.1m at W) which cannot be traced SSW-SW. There is a field bank and hedge at the base of the scarp W-N and a NE-SW field bank and drain cross the interior NW of the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.