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Ringfort - rath

Clogher, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clogher, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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