Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloontogher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontogher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63115, -8.10607
- SMR number
- RO040-034001-
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
In a low-lying, level landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32.7m NW-SE; 27.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) with some bushes and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.2m) SSE-W, and by an earthen bank (Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) ENE-ESE. The perimeter can scarcely be traced elsewhere, being occupied by the enclosure of the mass-rock (RO040-034003) at NW. There is no identifiable original entrance, but there is a rectangular annexe (RO040-034002-) (dims 8-9m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (H 02-0.5m) and traces of a bank at the E end of the NW side (L 12.4m) attached to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.