Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Money, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Money
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76786, -7.32062
- SMR number
- WM001-010----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on NE facing slope of small hillock with excellent views to W, N & E. Ringfort (WM001-009----) 160m to NW and large ringfort (WM001-011---) 260m to N. Roughly circular area (diam. 40.5m NE-SW; 36m SE-NW) enclosed by a wide well preserved earth and stone bank with faint traces of an external fosse at W only. Perimeter of monument is intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. No clear entrance feature visible, two breaks in the bank at NW but it not possible to know if one of these represents the original entrance. The surface of the interior is uneven and dips appreciably towards the perimeter on the NW and SE. The external face of the enclosing bank is faced with stone of post-1700 date from SW-W-N where it now forms part of a field boundary. There is a slight depression of unknown significance, but possibly modern disturbance near the centre. The interior has traces of post-1700 cultivation ridges running SW-NE. The bank supports hazel and other scrub.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.