What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle SE-facing slope of a broad hill within a moated site. Magnetic gradiometry conducted by the Discovery Programme in 2008 revealed an earlier circular enclosure about thirty metres across inside the NW angle, identifying it as a rath.
On the gentle SE-facing slope of a broad hill and within the moated site (RO028-165001-). Magnetic gradiometry conducted by the Discovery Programme in 2008 revealed an earlier circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) inside the NW angle, undoubtedly a rath. (www.discoveryprogramme.ie)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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