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
- Lissard Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissard Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.75855, -8.53850
- SMR number
- RO026-014----
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 the crest of the E end of a low E-W ridge which is at the N foot of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.8m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) NNW-E-S which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) with a field wall outside it elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO-026-013----) is c. 30m to the W.
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.