Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonastiallas, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonastiallas
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74260, -8.18048
- SMR number
- RO028-159----
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
At the N-facing crest of a broad, low hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 40.3m E-W; 35.9m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m; 1.4m) W-NNW, which is removed elsewhere, and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.3m at S to 9m at W; Wth of base 2.5-3.3m; D 0.7-1.4m). There is an outer bank (ext. H 0.3m) W-NNW, which is incorporated into a field bank ENE-S-W, and there is a causeway (Wth 3.5m) at SE. Rath (RO028-160001-) is c. 190m to the SSE.
See the attached aerial view taken from the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.