Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcreevagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcreevagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70785, -7.31427
- SMR number
- WM003-063----
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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 the E facing slope of a prominent rise in pasture land surrounded by gently undulating and hilly land with good views to the NW, NE and SE. Mound (WM003-064----) 300m to SSE, ringfort (WM003-060----) 360m to SSW, ringfort (WM003-059----) 550m to W. Heavily overgrown site as visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A slightly raised sub-circular area (diam. 29m N-S) is defined by two earth and stone banks with wide deep intervening fosse best preserved from SSE-S-W-NW. From N-E there are slight traces of an external bank although this may be a post-1700 field boundary feature. The middle bank is absent from ESE-S-W. A causewayed gap (Wth 2.7m) in the NNW sector of the inner bank may represent the entrance. The interior is uneven, with remains of a possible house site (WM003-063001-). Old field banks occur outside the site to the N.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 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.