Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rath (moygoish By., Rathowen Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath (moygoish By., Rathowen Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68124, -7.52985
- SMR number
- WM002-026----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a very low rise in fairly well-drained pasture land with wide views of the surrounding countryside, bogland 200m to NNE. Stream 30m to W which marks county boundary with Longford. Ringfort (LF020-020---) 40m to NNW, second ringfort (WM006-001----) 250m to SSE. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort possible. The enclosure is marked on all editions of the OS 6 inch maps as an antiquity. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.