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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.37389, -7.56039
- SMR number
- WM037-006----
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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 fairly flat pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-007----) lies c. 120m to NE. Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped enclosure. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 49m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. The low earthen bank is visible from ENE-S-W where it has been incorporated into a field boundary. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and is uneven with a number of dips and rises. Monument is visible today as a semicircular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography and is cut by a farm road running across the N quadrant.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.