Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonyrina, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonyrina
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46159, -7.55432
- SMR number
- WM024-164----
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, rounded knoll, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described as an oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 39m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with entrance gap at SE. The earth and stone bank is high and steep and is almost reduced to a scarp. It has been broken down by cattle in several places. There are vague traces of an intervening fosse from S-W-N. There is a low outer bank from S-W-N which has been reused as a field boundary from SW-W-N. A field boundary runs along the base of the outer bank from E-SE. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. The monument is largely inaccessible due to dense vegetation. Modern walls encroach on the site.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.