Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Culleenabohoge, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleenabohoge
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60456, -7.38126
- SMR number
- WM012-018----
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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 at the base of the N facing slope of a steep hill in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Ringfort (WM012-019---) 90m to S. This site has been levelled and is visible as a circular patch of vegetation (approx. diam. 35m N-S). The interior slopes from SW to NE and has traces of cultivation ridges aligned E-W. The levelled monument is now bisected by a modern field fence running NE-SW. Visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.