What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonsreane, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle north-facing slope where an overgrown earthen bank and outer fosse form a circular area nearly twenty-eight metres across. Some facing stones appear at the southwest, while a possible field bank circumscribes the monument from southwest to northwest.
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m E-W; 27.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown and poached earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.9m; int. H 0.2m at N to 1.1m at S; ext. H 1-1.2m) with some outer facing-stones at SW and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7-5.5m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 0.1m at N to 0.9m at S). An entrance (Wth 1.2m) at SW may be modern, and a field bank circumscribes the monument SW-NW. The possible rath (RO023-152----) is c. 100m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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