Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cloonbonny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbonny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39610, -7.89244
- SMR number
- WM029-033----
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 low rise, on a NW-facing slope, in low-lying wet pasture, overlooking a stream c. 45m to NW. A castle site (WM029-034----) lies c. 40m to E. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 10m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE). Monument described in 1973 as a small, roughly circular-shaped mound of earth and stone the base of which is enclosed by traces of a fosse which is best preserved from SE-S-SW. The top of the mound is gently rounded. There are the remains of a square-shaped building (dims. 4m x 4m) at S which is defined by stone walls (H 2m) that are best preserved to S and W. Only the base of the N and E walls survive. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 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.