Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonearagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonearagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74545, -8.12527
- SMR number
- RO029-091----
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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 a gentle W-facing slope. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 58.6m N-S; 51.8m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5-5.7m; Wth of top 3-3.9m; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge E-SW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m) SW-NW. There is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.3m; Wth of base 2.9-3.4m; D 0.3-0.9m) NW-E-SW, and an entrance (Wth 4m), but no causeway, at ENE. A shed is built on the perimeter at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.