Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75285, -7.32931
- SMR number
- WM001-018----
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 top of a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating land of good pasture. Excellent views to the W and N. Castle site (WM001-019----) located 280m to NNE. Unusually large roughly circular-shaped raised area (diam. 57m NE-SW; 55m NW-SE) defined by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank best preserved from WSW-W-WNW where it has been incorporated into a modern field boundary running N-S, and elsewhere reduced to a scarp with external fosse only visible from NW-N. No entrance feature visible. The interior slopes unevenly from SW to NE. To the east of the centre there is a low rocky outcrop. Faint traces of cultivation ridges running NNE-SSW across the monument.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.