Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlaughnan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlaughnan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52745, -8.26605
- SMR number
- RO044-032----
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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
On the crest of a broad, low NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 41.5m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5-7.8m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.65-1.65m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NNW-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance but there is a gap (Wth 7m) at S with a stock pen adjacent outside. A farm track bisected the monument NW-SE (Gannon 1972) which is now replaced with a new N-S track adjacent to the perimeter at E, and the location is circumscribed by a field bank S-W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.