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
- 53.42494, -7.55880
- SMR number
- WM031-068----
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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 gently undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringforts (WM031-069----/-067----) lie c. 60m to E and c. 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by well-preserved bank of earth and stone. A large number of boulders cleared from the surrounding field have been deposited against the outer face of the bank. There does not appear to be a fosse. There is an entrance at SE where the bank juts out into the interior on the SW side of it. The interior is uneven with a scatter of loose stones and there is a house site (WM031-068001-) in the centre. 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.