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Ringfort - cashel

Cloonkeen (Castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cloonkeen, 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
Cloonkeen (Castlereagh By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicatd
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.76136, -8.55610
SMR number
RO026-011001-

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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)
  • 1857 · 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

At the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 36.4m E-W; 32.2m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) with intermittently visible facing-stones, on which a field wall was built WNW-ENE. There is a grass-covered cairn (RO026-011002-) (dims 8.1m N-S; 5.3m E-W; H 0.5m) at the centre, which is probably a clearance cairn, and a depression (RO026-011003-) (dims 8m N-S; 1.8m E-W; D 0.5m) inside the perimeter at W may be a destroyed souterrain or a quarry. Rath (RO026-009001-) is c. 90m to the NE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 27 September 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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