Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Correagh (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correagh (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.37500, -7.55862
- SMR number
- WM037-005----
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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 gently rising ground with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-006----) lies c. 120m to SW. No antiquity shown at this location on the first ed. OS 6-inch map but depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 45m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse, no indication of an entrance. The interior is fairly even and a large rock protrudes from the surface in the N quadrant. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 16 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.