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
- 53.75457, -8.54632
- SMR number
- RO026-015----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the bottom of a gentle SW-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass and fern-covered area (diam. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a low and gapped grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 0.9-1.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m), which is overlain by a field wall SE-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It was removed by c. 2015 (digitalglobe image). The church (RO026-016001-) is c. 200m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 15 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.