Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clanhugh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clanhugh Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59098, -7.39324
- SMR number
- WM011-109----
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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 demesne lands of Clonhugh House located 870m to NW. On the S facing slope of a low rise of ground inside a tree plantation. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S) enclosed by two wide low banks of earth and stone with intervening fosse and external fosse. The interior is planted with trees. It appears that the outer bank and fosse were built when this site was converted into a tree ring in the post-1700 period. Possible that this earthwork was originally built as a landscape feature on the demesne lands of Clonhugh Lodge in the post-1700 period.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.