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Ringfort - unclassified

Sonna Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

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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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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