What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonerk, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. A circular overgrown area about thirty metres across contains an earthen bank two to two-point-two metres wide. Entrances appear at the northwest and southwest, while no visible fosse surrounds the site.
On a gentle S-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.2m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m). There is no visible fosse, and there are entrances at NW (5.8m) and SW (Wth 2m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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