Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooninisclin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooninisclin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73442, -8.62055
- SMR number
- RO025-023----
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 the crest at the N end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N to 1.7m at S) SSE-W-NE with a slight bank (Wth 8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m) WSW-WNW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance and the perimeter is truncated slightly by a NE-SW field wall at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.