Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clogher, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52932, -7.79225
- SMR number
- WM016-007----
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 top of a natural rise in grassland, immediately NE of St. Catherine’s R.C. Church. The field fence running N-S which forms the townland boundary with Corbrack ran along the E perimeter of the site, but it appears to have been levelled recently. Monument depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure with trees planted around the perimeter and in the interior, annotated on map as ‘Clogher Fort’. Depicted on the 1924 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m E-W) with Belfry in S quadrant. This enclosing element of the monument has been levelled and is now visible as a slight scarp. An iron belfry stands in the centre of the site with a cross-slab underneath.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Rock art (present location)under 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.