Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonashammer, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonashammer
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73247, -7.26424
- SMR number
- WM003-024----
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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 a modern forestry plantation, on a natural rise of ground with good views in all directions now obscured by trees. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 17m NE-SW) defined by a slight earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp and traces of an external fosse visible at NE, S and W only with possible entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NE. Grass covered wall footings of a rectangular house (WM003-024001-) in centre of interior.
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.