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
- 53.75447, -7.32044
- SMR number
- WM001-020----
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 a low natural rise of ground in well drained pasture-land with good views of the surrounding countryside. Roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 34.5m E-W; 37m N-S) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank with wide deep external fosse best preserved at N, with causewayed entrance gap (top Wth 7m; base Wth 0.9m) at ESE. The interior of the ringfort slopes very slightly from NW to SE with a rise towards the centre. Outside the fosse from S-SW there is a narrow almost level zone of ground and outside this is a steep scarp-like feature which merges into the natural slopes of the natural rise at both ends. It is difficult to determine the significance of this.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.