Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Correaly, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correaly
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69450, -7.45128
- SMR number
- WM002-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in fairly well drained land with good views of the surrounding country side. Ringfort (WM002-031----) 35m to W and second ringfort (WM002-023---) 90m to NE. A large polygonal shaped area (dims. 72m N-S ; 48m E-W) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (int. H 1m) best preserved at N with no evidence for an enclosing fosse or entrance feature. The interior has a gentle slope from N to S. There are traces of NE-SW cultivation ridges running through the interior. The outline of this levelled monument is barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.