Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Corkan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corkan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54388, -7.55417
- SMR number
- WM017-043001-
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
Low earthworks in field immediately to NNE and E of ringfort (WM017-043----) may be the remains of a medieval field system. These earthworks are not visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
See attached plan of ringfort showing earthworks of field system to NNE and E.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 06 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.