Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74044, -8.19657
- SMR number
- RO028-165001-
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
On the gentle SE-facing slope of a broad hill. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 61.3m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2.2-3.2m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) on the N and E sides, and a scarp (H 0.35-1m) elsewhere. There are fosses (Wth of top 4.4-6m; Wth of base 2.1-3.7m; D 0.15-0.45m) on each side, but there is no visible entrance. Magnetic gradiometry conducted by the Discovery Programme in 2008 revealed an earlier enclosure or rath (RO028-165002-) inside the NW corner. The possible rath (RO029-164----) is c. 190m to the W. (www.discoveryprogramme.ie)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.