Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Vicarstown, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vicarstown
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26193, -7.79439
- SMR number
- OF015-013----
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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
Located on flat poorly drained land. Circular area (36m E-W) enclosed by low flat bank (Wth 7m) at W, reduced to a scarp elsewhere, wide external fosse (Wth 7m; int. D 1.7m) with no entrance feature visible. There are beech trees all along the perimeter of the enclosure indicating the possibility that this is a tree ring. The interior of the site appears to have been hollowed out. Possibly a ringfort modified into a tree ring.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.