Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonashammer, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonashammer
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73112, -7.26664
- SMR number
- WM003-023----
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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 forestry plantation on S facing slope of rising ground with good views to E, S and W now obscured by trees. A circular area (approx. diam. 22m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank that has been levelled from NE-E-S with slight traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. Several disturbance gaps of modern appearance in the enclosing bank. The interior slopes gently from NW-SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.