Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghnashade, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnashade
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52970, -8.21618
- SMR number
- RO044-039----
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
Towards the top of the W-facing slope of SE-NW spur. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m E-W; 27.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-3.8m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.4m at E to 0.7-0.9m generally) and hedge which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) at W. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but field banks in the vicinity have been removed. Rath (RO044-040----) is c. 190m to the NE.
See the attached aerial image taken from the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.