Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan,windtown North, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan,windtown North
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67198, -7.53502
- SMR number
- WM006-005----
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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 in grassland with bog c. 600m to the NW, with other areas of bog c. 900m and 1200m to SW and NE respectively. Ringfort (WM006-004---) 140m to SE. Annotated on the Fair Plan as a D-shaped enclosure, this site is bisected by the townland boundary between Windtown North and Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan. Originally circular (approx. diam. 30m NNE-SSW), the site has been completely levelled on the E side, though it is possible to trace a portion of the enclosure as a crop-mark. On the W side of the townland boundary are the remains of a poorly preserved bank curving from S-N-NE, with slight traces of an outer ditch.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.