Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonderry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonderry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.32087, -8.44832
- SMR number
- SL008-095----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 24m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a narrow bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3.15m). At the external foot of the bank are a fosse (Wth 6.15m) and an external bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.95; int. H 1.2m). A roughly rectangular, now disused, quarry (dims. 12m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW; D 3m) abuts the external face of the inner bank and has been cut into the base of the fosse and through the external bank at NE. From E-WNW the external bank is absent but the outer edge of the fosse is still visible. A break (Wth 4m) in the internal bank with a causeway across the fosse at WNW marks the position of the original entrance. There is a modern break (Wth 5m) in the internal bank at WSW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.