Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonickilvant, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonickilvant
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53836, -7.19377
- SMR number
- WM020-040----
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 prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Ringfort (WM020-039----) lies c. 90m to W. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 35m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with traces of a wide, shallow outer fosse, causewayed entrance at SSE where there is a gap (Wth at top 69.9m; basal Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank and a corresponding ramp (Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 6.2m; H 1.1m) across the fosse. The bank is high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp on the interior. A modern disturbance gap is visible at W. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible today as a well preserved roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 07 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.