Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghanaskaw, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanaskaw
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42673, -7.55696
- SMR number
- WM031-067----
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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 undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringforts (WM031-069----/068----) lie c. 165m to S and c. 200m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork and on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a slight external fosse. A field wall runs outside most of the fosse. There is a possible entrance at SE. The interior has a slight W-facing slope. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.