Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcorbally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcorbally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59496, -7.25480
- SMR number
- WM012-081----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 S facing slope of an undulating ridge overlooking wet land to the S. Remains consist of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 28m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior, which rises towards the centre. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.