Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheskernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheskernagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73539, -7.26511
- SMR number
- WM003-022----
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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 in modern woodland plantation on top of natural rise with good views in all directions now obscured by the forest. A raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 27m WNW-ESE) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse (approx. Wth 1.5m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 2.7m) at NE. The inner bank (ext. H 1.8m; int. H 0.3m) of earth and stone has evidence of stone revetment along the internal face while the outer bank (Wth 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) has evidence of external stone facing. The outer bank has been removed on both sides of the entrance. The interior has a general slight slope rising towards the centre. An OPW report from 1966 suggested the possibility that this earthwork may have been the remains of a tree-ring of post 1700 date (OPW field report, 03/03/1966).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 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.