Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clogher Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher Lower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67975, -8.67135
- SMR number
- RO032-062----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Just off the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge on a NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.1m E-W; 29.9m N-S) defined by three earthen banks, the outermost of which only survives WNW-N-SE. The inner bank (Wth 3-3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) and hedge is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.3-6m; Wth of base 2.6-3.2m) from a middle bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.2-1.2m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m), while a second fosse (Wth of top 4.6-5.4m; Wth of base 2.7-3.3m) separates it from the outer bank (Wth 2.6-3.1; int. H 0.4-1.3m; ext. H 0.9m) WNW-N-SE (max. surviving dims 56.8m E-W; 56m N-S). There is an entrance at SE through the middle (Wth 2.5m) and inner (Wth 2.4m) banks with a causeway (Wth 4.5m) across the inner fosse. Rath (RO032-063----) is c. 100m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1962).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.