Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrick (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.68462, -7.17645
- SMR number
- WM004-033----
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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 top of a hillock in elevated land. Lough Bane is c. 190m to the N, Carrick House is 900m to ESE and ringfort (WM004-032---) 145m to SSW. Monument depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular raised area (37.5m N-S; 34.5m E-W) defined by a low, poorly preserved earthen bank, best preserved at S, and faced externally with stone masonry of post-1700 date. There are slight traces of an external fosse at N. The raised interior slopes from N-S, and has been planted with trees in the past. This appears to be a ringfort, later re-used as a tree ring. The ringfort or tree-ring stands immediately NNE of a tree-lined avenue leading up to Carrick Ho. as shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.