Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milkernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milkernagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.73040, -7.43814
- SMR number
- WM002-002----
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 very slight rise in average pasture land overlooking a wide area of bog to the N & E. A stream flows to the N & NE of the site. The site is very overgrown and covered in scrub woodland making detailed examination impossible. Large roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 44m NW-SE; 58m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a high scarp (H 0.7-1.3m) which in places has been modified where it forms modern field boundaries. A shallow fosse probably part of the field boundary can be traced from N to E and from SW to WNW. The perimeter and part of the interior is badly overgrown with blackthorn bushes. The interior has slight remains of old cultivation ridges running NE-SW. In the NE part of the ringfort more modern cultivation ridges run NW-SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Religious house nunnery - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.