What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonanart More is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonanart More, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a south-facing hill slope and measures roughly forty-four metres east-west by thirty-eight metres north-south. An earthen bank and flat-bottomed ditch surround the grass-covered centre, while another rath lies eighty metres to the north-northwest.
At the crest of the S-facing slope of a hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 44.2m E-W; 37.9m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1m at E to 1.4-1.6m generally) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.5-7.5m; Wth of base 1.5-2.7m; D 0.2-0.4m generally to 0.8m at S). An original entrance cannot be identified. Rath (RO028-088----) is c. 80m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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