Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonmurly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmurly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64451, -8.11745
- SMR number
- RO040-019----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 36.5m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.4m), with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.6-2m; D 0.1-0.2m) SW-N-ENE. A beehive quernstone, found near the monument, is kept at a nearby house.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.