Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corgarve, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgarve
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41988, -7.57260
- SMR number
- WM031-088----
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 slight SE-facing slope, in pasture, with views to N. Ringfort (WM031-089----) lies c. 75m to S and ringfort (WM031-065----) lies c. 150m to N. Monument described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank best preserved from SSW-W-WNW and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. There is some indication of a shallow external fosse visible from WSW-W-WNW and from NNE-NE-ENE, although the latter is very faint. There is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a SE-facing slope, the surface is slightly uneven, although no features are visible. A modern field wall skirts the perimeter of the monument, to NW. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.