Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonylyon, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonylyon
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74784, -8.10992
- SMR number
- RO029-071----
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. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the crest of an E-W ridge on the gentle NW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 45.1m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.1m) NE-E, and a fosse (at W: Wth of top 6m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.9m) SW-NNW. The interior is overlain by field boundaries, and farm buildings impinge on the perimeter at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 19 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.