Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloran And Corcullentry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloran And Corcullentry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64340, -6.97795
- SMR number
- WM009-031----
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 the SSW face of a slight natural rise, surrounded by undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM009-030----) 450m to NW. A slightly raised oval shaped area (approx. diam. 28m NE-SW; 18.5m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with entrance gap (Wth 5m) at SE. The interior slopes from NE-SW. The perimeter has been disturbed by digging at NW.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 May 2017
Nearby in the register
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.