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
- 53.47578, -7.66907
- SMR number
- WM024-075----
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 prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 38m) and depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which appears to have been partially quarried at NE. Monument described in 1971 as freshly exposed patches of stony earth which have yet to be covered in regrowth. The interior is slightly uneven and rises gradually from the perimeter towards the centre. There is no visible trace of an entrance or an external fosse. Outline of tree-covered monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Unclear how much of the monument has been quarried away and what remains upstanding.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.