Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcreevagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcreevagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71497, -7.32912
- SMR number
- WM003-036----
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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
Described in 1973 as 'Indicated as a circular depression in a plantation on the 1910 edition OS 6-inch map. It appears in fact that there was an enclosure (int. dims. 39m NE-SW; 36m SE-NW) probably a ringfort there. The site is a slight natural rise and around the top of it is a stony zone (Wth 7.6m) with vegetation whose colour is distinguishable from the general colour of the vegetation around it. This presumably represents the site of a bank. No indication as to where the material was moved to. No visible trace of an entrance. The interior slopes slightly from SSW-NNE. No visible feature of significance on it. Thee was a small natural pool of water to the S but this was drained recently. The site is relatively lowlying and almost surrounded by waterlooged land save on the SW where the land is of good pasture which rises gently from the site' (SMR file).
Date of upload: 4 December 2009
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.