Cliffords Monument, monumental structure in County Roscommon

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Erected by Lord Lorton in the late 18th century at the supposed spot where Sir Conyers Clifford was slain during the battle of the Curlews (RO006-002002-) in 1599. On the steep S-facing slope of the Curlew Mountains. Described as a limestone octogon it was reduced in height to c. 1m by the 1830s accroding to J. O'Donovan (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 105-6). It is now an overgrown cairn (diam. of base c. 3.5m; diam. of top 1.5m; H 0.9m). The monument is erroneously described as one to a Capt. Alexander Weir, killed in a skirmish with Sarsfield's troops in 1690 (D'alton 1845, 83-4). A sculpture representing a Gaelic Chief has been erected by the NRA to commemorate the Battle of 1599 in a carpark in Doon townland at IG (181114, 307160) or ITM (581069, 807171).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO006-002001

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