Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Corbally (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71329, -7.25597
- SMR number
- WM003-051001-
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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 (WM003-051----) or ringfort on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described in 1973 as a demolished earthwork with the faint remains of a sub-rectangular house site (dims ) on top of the hillock. Possible levelled ringfort (WM003-051---) 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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.