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 (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.75240, -8.53621
- SMR number
- RO026-044----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 30m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) NW-NE, and a curving field wall ESE-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by a NNE-SSW field wall at E. Rath (RO026-017----) is c. 190m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.