Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cloghbreen, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghbreen
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45496, -7.75805
- SMR number
- WM023-072----
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 top of a steep natural rise, in gently undulating pasture and tillage. Annotated ‘Cloghbrien Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Ringfort (WM023-071----) lies c. 120m to N. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. Barely visible outline of levelled ringfort visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.