Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Correllstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correllstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48189, -7.14476
- SMR number
- WM027-045----
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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 SW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture and tillage. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped tree-lined enclosure. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32m) defined by the upper edges of a very faint, intermittent scarp. There are very vague suggestions of an outer fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a slight SW-facing slope. Levelled monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.