Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clondalever (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clondalever (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60968, -7.21108
- SMR number
- WM013-005----
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 within a coniferous plantation on a small prominent hillock surrounded by undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM013-004---) 360m to W, ringfort (WM013-006----) 260m to E. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank with entrance gap at SW. The surface of the interior rises sharply towards the centre especially at N. The profile of the monument indicates the possible presence of an internal fosse and a mound (diam. 18m NE-SW) like interior which may suggest that this may be the remains of large barrow rather than that of a ringfort.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.