Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonerra, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonerra
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73165, -8.15357
- SMR number
- RO029-116----
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 W end of a low E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-4.4m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 1.1-1.7m) and hedge NE-S-NW, which has been incorporated into a field bank NE-S, and a fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 1.6-1.8m; D 0.3-0.6m) S-NW. The monument has been truncated by an E-W field bank at N and there is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.