Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghnashade, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnashade
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52880, -8.22425
- SMR number
- RO044-038001-
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
On the gentle NE-facing slope of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.25-0.5m; ext. H 1.3-1.7m) and hedge which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.05m) NE-S-SW, with a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.3-7m; Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.4-0.8m) S-SE. There is an entrance (Wth c. 2m) and causeway (Wth 6m) at NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.