Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonrabrackan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonrabrackan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78405, -8.06443
- SMR number
- RO023-182001-
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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 SE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 47.5m N-S; 38.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.5-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m) with inner facing- stones at N, which is reduced to a scarp E-SE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SE-W-E. The original entrance may have been at SE. There is a record of a cairn (RO023-182002-) with three stones protruding from it at the centre of the monument (Gannon 1972) which can no longer be seen. Rath (RO023-181001-) is c. 190m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.