Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Culleen More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleen More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55537, -7.36111
- SMR number
- WM019-007----
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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 in gently undulating pasture, with poorly drained land to N, E and SE. Ringfort (WM019-006----) lies c. 200m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork bisected by a railway line.
Monument described in 1970 as a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) enclosed by a modern field bank from N-SE and from SSW-WNW. The monument has been bisected by a railway line running NW-SE and is much disturbed on either side. The remaining portions of the site would suggest it had a general NE-facing slope. A semi-circular quarry has been dug into the ridge across the surviving SW sector of the monument. The monument has been levelled across the NE sector. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped scrub-covered earthwork bisected by a railway line on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.