Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloonbonny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbonny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39614, -7.89146
- SMR number
- WM029-034----
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 NW-facing slope, in low-lying, wet pasture, overlooking a stream c. 85m to NW. A bowl-barrow (WM029-033----) lies c. 40m to W and a railway line running NW-SE lies c. 45m to NE. Depicted on an 1820 Estate Map (NLI 14 A 25) as a castle ruin marked on the site of an earthwork. Not depicted on OS mapping. Monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Castle site is visible as a roughly square-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a dark green band of differential growth in contrast to the surrounding field, on OSi aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 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.