Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonyn, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonyn
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60701, -7.10381
- SMR number
- WM013-114----
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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 natural rise of ground on the landscaped demesne lands of Clonyn House located 650m to the NNW. This earthwork is depicted as a grove of trees standing E of the main avenue leading up to Clonyn House on the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. A possible ringfort (WM013-032----) lies 125m to the E and a second possible ringfort (WM013-033----) is 95m to the SSE. Possible ringfort that was re-used as a tree-ring as part of the landscaping of Clonyn House demesne.
Remains consist of a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 29m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and narrow external fosse. Cultivation ridges aligned NNE-SSW are visible running across the interior of the monument. It is not clear if all three earthworks (WM013-032-/033----) are the remains of ringforts that were converted into tree-rings as part of the landscaping of Clonyn House demesne or whether they were built as tree-rings in the post-1700 period.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien with details provided by Melanie McQuade, Westmeath Heritage Officer
Date of upload: 2 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.