Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonsuck, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsuck
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77593, -8.59475
- SMR number
- RO026-003----
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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 SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.1m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8-4.3m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.2-4.2m; D 0.5m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.2-0.5m). The inner bank is missing SE-S and the outer bank is missing WNW-N, while the entrance (Wth 3m) is at W. The monument is bisected by a N-S field wall (max. ext. diam. 49.4m E-W). Cashel (RO026-004----) is c. 220m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.