Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Clonsheever, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonsheever
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55179, -7.29040
- SMR number
- WM019-021----
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 a very slight rise, in gently undulating tillage, overlooked by a gentle rise to SE. Not depicted on any ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map whee it is depicted as a roughly circular shaped enclosure. Levelled monument described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. Possible faint outline of levelled monument visible today 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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.