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
- 53.44405, -7.79435
- SMR number
- WM030-008----
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 wet pasture. 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. 45m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone and a possible external fosse. The bank is best preserved from SE-S-SW and is reduced to a scarp from SW-W-NW. The remains of a potential fosse are visible from NW-N-NE, however it may be a ditch associated with an old field boundary which runs through the adjoining field. There is a possible entrance at E. The interior is quite uneven and rises gently from the perimeter towards the centre, where there are some slight undulations. The remains of cultivation ridges run E-W across the interior. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-lined suboval-shaped 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.