Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Culleen More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleen More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56877, -7.34937
- SMR number
- WM012-170----
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 a slight natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM012-170---) 200m to SSW. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 22m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a shallow external fosse visible from W-NW. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible in the interior. Part of the perimeter has been quarried away from N-NE. A field fence running ESE-WNW intersects the perimeter of the monument at ESE and WNW.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.