Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonsuck, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsuck
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77554, -8.59091
- SMR number
- RO026-004----
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 an E-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 34.8m N-S; 22.8m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8-3.2m; H 0.2-0.6m) with intermittently visible facing-stones. The monument is truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S and quarried into inside the perimeter at W. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO026-003----) is c. 220m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.