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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67988, -8.66899
- SMR number
- RO032-063----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
On the steep NE-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 39.9m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5-5.8m; Wth of top 2-3m; int. H 0.4m at N to 1.1m at S (upslope); ext. H 0.9m at W to 2m at N) which is incorporated into a field bank SE-SSW, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.5m) E-ESE. There is an entrance (Wth 1.9m) at ENE. Rath (RO032-062----) is c. 100m to the W and rath (RO032-064----) is c. 210m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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.