Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
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
- 53.67569, -7.50848
- SMR number
- WM006-002----
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 a slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land. Ringfort (WM006-003----) 400m to E. A slightly raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 27m N-S) enclosed by a very low bank with slight remains of an external fosse, and traces of a poorly defined outer bank and external fosse. The outer bank and external fosse are intersected at SE by a post-1700 field fence running NE-SW. The slightly raised interior has traces of cultivation ridges running across the monument. The profile of the earthwork and its appearance on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 may suggest that this monument is a ring-barrow rather than a ringfort. Gap in outer bank and fosse at NNW visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph may be an entrance feature
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.