What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonrabrackan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an oval grass-covered area on a gentle SE-facing slope, bounded by an earthen bank, hedge and outer fosse. A record mentions a central cairn with three protruding stones that can no longer be seen.

On a gentle SE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 47.5m N-S; 38.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.5-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m) with inner facing- stones at N, which is reduced to a scarp E-SE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SE-W-E. The original entrance may have been at SE. There is a record of a cairn (RO023-182002-) with three stones protruding from it at the centre of the monument (Gannon 1972) which can no longer be seen. Rath (RO023-181001-) is c. 190m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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