Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Corbrack, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbrack
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.53742, -7.79138
- SMR number
- WM016-005----
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
This monument is now located on the N side of the Tang River in the modern County of Longford because the course of the Tang River was straightened in recent times. Depicted as a semi-circular-shaped enclosure standing on the S bank of the Tang River which formed the enclosing element on the NE side of the monument. No surface remains visible. Slight traces of the semi-circular shaped earthwork appears to be visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph where it is visible as a line of trees on the S side of the monument. The old course of the Tang River is clearly visible on the Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.