Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonbigny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbigny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39919, -8.19793
- SMR number
- RO050-017----
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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
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the crest of a slight N-S ridge at the S end. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 32m NE-WSW; 29m NNW-SSE) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 4.7-5.5m; int. H 0.1m generally to 0.5m at N (upslope); ext. H 0.1m generally to 0.5m at S), which is overlain by a field wall SSW-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.