Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonyourish, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonyourish
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58369, -8.22661
- SMR number
- RO041-036----
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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)
- 1811 · 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 a gentle SE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 53.6m NNE-SSW; 41.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m) and outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 10.8m; Wth of base 4.5m; D 0.3m) WNW-NE which is incorporated into field banks NE-E and WSW-WNW, and a fosse (Wth of top 3-4m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 0.4m) E-WSW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and it is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and drains. It has been removed since 2001 (OSI aerial images 2005).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.