Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncose, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncose
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09270, -8.62193
- SMR number
- SL032-155----
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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
In pasture, at the N end of a summit of what was originally a bog-island. A raised circular area (26.6m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) SE-NW and by a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. The bank is straight along the S edge but is curved elsewhere. The interior is level. A quarry cuts into the scarp at NE. The rath is indicated as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 30m x c. 35m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.