Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creggan Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggan Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41748, -7.88715
- SMR number
- WM029-027----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise, in pasture, on the E edge of Athlone town. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 45m E-W; 40m N-S). Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is visible as a cropmark defined by two concentric rings of differential growth which are visible from NW-N-E-S-SSW, on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.