Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rath (moygoish By., Rathowen Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath (moygoish By., Rathowen Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67978, -7.52623
- SMR number
- WM006-001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 S facing slope of low natural rise in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Bogland 200m to N, and ringfort (WM002-026----) 250m to NW. Levelled ringfort the outline of which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. The monument was levelled c. 1975 and was described in this year as consisting of a sub-circular area (approx. diam. 40m N-S) defined by a low poorly preserved earthen bank with traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. The interior was described as uneven and had been recently bulldozed.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.