Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Clonreagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonreagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53779, -7.12238
- SMR number
- WM020-058----
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 low ridge running NW-SE, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 22m), annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan. Poorly preserved monument described in 1972 as a much disturbed roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) defined by a bank with traces of an outer fosse. The bank is almost reduced to a scarp and is evident from NNE-E-S-SW and with vague traces from NNW-N-NNE. There are the very slight remains of a fosse from NE-E-S-SW. The perimeter has been removed from SW-W-N-NE. A public road skirts the monument at W. Much of the interior has been quarried away and an entrance to the quarry is cut through the scarp at NNE. Outline of levelled monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.