Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonbonny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbonny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38716, -7.88899
- SMR number
- WM035-001----
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 flat, low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular earthwork and annotated ‘Danish Fort’ on an estate map dating from 1820 (NLI MS 14 A. 25). Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible today 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.