Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Cloonkeen (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76132, -8.55613
- SMR number
- RO026-011002-
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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
At the crest of the S-facing slope of a low NW-SE ridge, and at the centre of cashel (RO026-011001-). This is a grass-covered cairn (dims 8.1m N-S; 5.3m E-W; H 0.5m) which may be a clearance cairn.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.