Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonsreane, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsreane
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78232, -8.14462
- SMR number
- RO023-153----
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 gentle N-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m E-W; 27.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown and poached earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.9m; int. H 0.2m at N to 1.1m at S; ext. H 1-1.2m) with some outer facing-stones at SW and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7-5.5m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 0.1m at N to 0.9m at S). An entrance (Wth 1.2m) at SW may be modern, and a field bank circumscribes the monument SW-NW. The possible rath (RO023-152----) is c. 100m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.