Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonydonnin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonydonnin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.36072, -7.79976
- SMR number
- WM036-037----
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 a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. The Athlone to Clara railway line lies c. 15m to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32m) defined by a scarp with external fosse, entrance gap at E . The interior has an E-facing slope. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.