Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Correagh (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correagh (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43583, -7.75573
- SMR number
- WM030-019----
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 in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 48m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by a bank, which has been intersected from S-SW by a post-1700 field boundary. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-lined 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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.