Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonybane, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonybane
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48002, -7.66945
- SMR number
- WM024-037----
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 rise, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described in 1971 and 1977 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 36m E-W) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with causewayed (overall Wth of causeway 9.2m; top Wth of causeway 4.7m; H 0.4m) entrance ESE. The monument is bisected by a field boundary running ESE-WNW. The inner bank is reduced to a scarp from W-N-ESE. The fosse is best preserved from SE-S and is barely traceable from WNW-N-ESE. The outer bank is visible at SSE and from S-SW-W. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and a circular enclosure (WM024-037001-) is visible in the S quadrant.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.