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Ringfort - rath

Cloonrabrackan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonrabrackan, 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
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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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

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 Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.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

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

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