Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clare, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clare
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46676, -7.64323
- SMR number
- WM024-089----
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with a gap (Wth at top 3.7m; Wth at base 1.6m) at SE which may represent the original entrance. The inner bank is best preserved at ESE and is almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. It has several narrow modern gaps and slight quarry depressions. The fosse is visible from SSW-W-N-NE and has been truncated from NNE-E by a field boundary running NW-SE. The low remains of an outer bank are visible from SSW-W-NW. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre, where a hut-site (WM024-089001-) is located.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.