Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonkeen (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76243, -8.55000
- SMR number
- RO026-010----
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
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 20m E-W; 18m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.4m) which is truncated slightly by a NW-SE road wall at NE. It is probably a rath
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.