Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shrubbywood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shrubbywood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67948, -7.41323
- SMR number
- WM006-011----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on low-lying ground 60m to the E of the River Inny, and surrounded by bog land c. 500m away on all sides. A circular shaped area (diam. 33m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, best preserved at S and NNW, and almost completely levelled elsewhere, with slight traces of an external fosse at S. The site is bisected by a post-1700 field bank and drain running N-S. The interior is slightly raised.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Habitation site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.