Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51939, -7.09559
- SMR number
- WM021-007----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 with good views to SE, yet restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork indicated with a perforated line and planted, suggestive of a tree-ring. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular pennanular-shaped earthwork, open to E. Monument described in 1980 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 49m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a scarp and an external fosse. The scarp is well preserved from S-W-N-NE but it is low and faint from NE-E-SSE where it is only recognisable as a gentle rise in ground level. The remains of a narrow and fairly shallow fosse survive from SSW-SW-W-WNW. There is no sign of an entrance but it may have been at E where there is a natural slope upwards toward the perimeter. The interior rises quite sharply from the perimeter towards the centre, where there is a roughly level area. There are no features visible within. Outline of levelled monument is barely visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. It is possible that this may have been a ringfort that was reused as tree-ring in the post-1700 period.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.