Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66995, -7.53650
- SMR number
- WM006-006----
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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 surrounded by gently undulating pasture-land, with bog land c. 800m to the W and NW. Earthwork (WM005-001----) 190m to E. Ringfort (WM006-004----) 160m to NNW. Ringfort (WM006-005----) 190m NE. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 31.5m N-S; 29m E- W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at ESE. The bank has been steepened from W-NW-N, where it forms part of the townland boundary with Windtown North. The slightly raised interior slopes from SW-NE and has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run NE-SW. A post-1700 field fence runs onto the perimeter of the site at SE. Site and field fence at SE has been levelled, and is now visible only as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe Aerial Photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.