Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Sonna Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sonna Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56631, -7.46150
- SMR number
- WM011-135----
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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 W facing slope of a low hillock in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam 25m E-W) which is annotated ‘fort’. This site has been levelled. Visible only as a low rise of ground.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.