Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cullenhugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullenhugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61985, -7.45967
- SMR number
- WM011-011----
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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 relatively low lying wet grassland, with views from the site restricted by rising undulating land. The field fence which marks the townland boundary with Leny is 40m to E. Described in 1972 as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 18m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; H 0.3m) and slight external fosse. The fosse is only visible from E-S-NW. The interior has been disturbed by cattle. The monument was levelled some time between March 1972 and July 1973 when it was described as a monument recently levelled. No surface remains visible of levelled monument and no cropmark of monument 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.