Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonkill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonkill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57107, -7.25967
- SMR number
- WM012-198----
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 the lower S facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Ringfort (WM012-197---) 35m to NE. Outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Described in 1981 as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earthen bank and wide fosse. The bank is best preserved at W (max. H 1.25m) and is fragmentary in places elsewhere. A possible house site (WM012-198001-) is visible inside the bank in the E quadrant. A field fence running NW-SE intersects the perimeter of the monument at SW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.