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Ringfort - rath

Cloncullen (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloncullen, 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
Cloncullen (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.53457, -7.71618
SMR number
WM016-044----

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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

The remains of a roughly-circular tree-lined enclosure which could be the remains of a possible ringfort are visible on OSI 2005 aerial photograph (pers. comm. C. McCormack). Depicted as a small polygonal-shaped field on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. Cloncullen House located 260m to the SE. This enclosure may be a ringfort that was reused as a small field or landscape feature associated with nearby Cloncullen House. Alternatively it may have been constructed originally as a landscape feature by the residents of Cloncullen House in the post-medieval period. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 14 February 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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