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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75856, -8.53970
- SMR number
- RO026-013----
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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 the crest of a low E-W ridge which is at the N base of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 48m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 2.1m; D 0.2m) N-SE, and by a scarp (H 0.4m) SW-N while the perimeter is replaced by a field wall SE-SW. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) and causeway (Wth 3.5m) are at NE, and the interior is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall. Rath (RO026-014----) is c. 30m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.