Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Glebe (corkaree By., Ballinalack Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (corkaree By., Ballinalack Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62074, -7.46918
- SMR number
- WM011-009----
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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 NE facing slope of low rise of ground on relatively low lying wet grassland. A stream which marks the townland boundary with Cullenagh is 70m to W. Possible ringfort (WM011-009----) 155m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a large oval shaped enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’. Described in 1972 as a monument that had been levelled. All that remains is a sub-circular shaped area indicated by a slightly raised platform (approx. diam. 44m ) defined by a dark band of vegetation. Vague traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNE-SSW across the interior of the levelled monument. A drain running E-W and a field boundary intersects the perimeter of the site at S. A second smaller area (approx. diam. 15m) also defined by a dark band of vegetation adjoins this monument to the NE. Other crop marks surrounding the site may be earthworks relating to post-1700 drainage. Outline of levelled monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.