Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63238, -7.51724
- SMR number
- WM006-042----
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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 low rise of ground on poorly drained grassland. Ringfort (WM006-043----) 60m to SSE. Originally depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, and later depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the revised 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a D-shaped area (approx. diam. 35m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp with traces of a wide shallow external fosse only visible from S-W-N. A post-1700 field fence and drain running NW-SE intersects the site at W. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNE-SSW across the interior of the monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.