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Ringfort - rath

Cloonbonny, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonbonny, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloonbonny
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
hachured
Coordinates
53.39319, -7.88021
SMR number
WM029-035----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 60m N-S; 50m E-W). Monument described in 1973 as a roughly oval-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is present from WSW-W-N-NE, is reduced to a scarp from NE-E-ESE and is probably incorporated into a field boundary from ESE-S-WSW. An intervening fosse is visible from WSW-W-N-NE and appears to be obscured from NE-E-ESE by a later field boundary running NW-SE. There is a gap at W however this may be modern. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and some small boulders project from the surface. A children’s burial ground (WM029-035001-) is reputed to be within. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined enclosure 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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