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Ringfort - rath

Cloonfineen, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonfineen, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloonfineen
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.69820, -8.64676
SMR number
RO032-028----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a N-S esker ridge. Described as the slight remains of a rath (Gannon 1972), which have since been removed. Archaeological monitoring (08E0669) of topsoil stripping c. 30m to the W failed to produce any related material in 2008 (Delaney 2011a) or 2009 (Delaney 2012).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 June, 2012

References

Delaney, D. 2012 Cloonfineen and Rathlena: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 181, No. 695. Dublin. Wordwell.

Delaney, D. 2011a Cloonfineen and Rathlena: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 304, No. 1026. Dublin. Wordwell.

Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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