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
- Lisgall Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisgall Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.75263, -8.53915
- SMR number
- RO026-017----
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
Towards the bottom of a steep SW-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass and fern-covered area (diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.6-1.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) NW-NE and by a scarp (max. H 1.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A field bank is built on the perimeter NNW-NNE. Rath (RO026-044----) is c. 190m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.