Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonastiallas, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonastiallas
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74029, -8.17931
- SMR number
- RO028-160001-
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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 gentle SE-facing slope of a broad, low hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 49.1m E-W; 46.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4.6m; int. H 0.15-0.4m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.7-8.5m; Wth of base 3.2m; D 0.2-0.3m), which has been re-cut (Wth of base 4m; D 0.8-1m) with an outer field bank NNW-E-SSW. There are gaps in the bank at NNW (Wth 2m), NNE (Wth 6m), SE (Wth 4m) and W (Wth 12m). Rath (RO028-159----) is c. 190m to the NNW.
See the attached aerial view taken from the SW.
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
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.