Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creeve (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creeve (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44798, -7.79793
- SMR number
- WM030-007----
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 rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 39m) defined by a low scarp and traces of an external fosse. A field boundary running N-S crosses the monument at E. The earthwork is defined by a public road running ENE-WSW across the S sector. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and the remains of old cultivation ridges running E-W. Monument described in 1979 as levelled and now defined by an irregular band of stony earth from SW-W-N-NE, which appears to represent the line of the perimeter. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on OSi 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 - indeterminate dateunder 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.