Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Corbally (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Parially Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71325, -7.25586
- SMR number
- WM003-051----
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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 natural rise of ground or hillock on wet marshy land which has been drained. No surface remains visible. Depicted as a polygonal shaped-enclosure (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 31m E-W) or ringfort on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and as a horseshoe shaped earthwork with open side at S on the revised 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible. Described in 1973 as a demolished earthwork with the faint remains of a sub-rectangular house site (WM003-051001) on top of the hillock. Possible levelled ringfort with rectangular house site in centre of levelled monument. Outline of levelled ringfort barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.