Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coole, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coole
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70643, -7.38903
- SMR number
- WM003-052----
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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 low rushy, poorly drained pasture land. Only the N quadrant of this possible trivallate ringfort survives. The monument is transected at S by a post-1700 curving field boundary aligned NE-SE. No surface remains visible of enclosing element to S of this field boundary. A second post-1700 field boundary aligned NW-SE runs across the NE quadrant of the enclosure. Present remains consist of a semi-circular shaped area(approx. int. diam. 49m NE-SW) possibly enclosed by three earth and stone banks with corresponding fosses and causewayed entrance at SW. The inner bank is mainly reduced to a scarp with a wide U-shaped fosse, and second wide low bank enclosed by a narrow steep shallow fosse with slight remains of a third earthen bank. The interior of the ringfort is now cut by field drains.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.