Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonyegan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonyegan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41296, -7.77435
- SMR number
- WM030-071----
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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 pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped partially tree-lined earthwork which is bisected by a field boundary running NW-SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 55m NW-SE; 50m NE-SW) which is cut by a field boundary running NE-SW across the SE sector. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.