Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Windtown (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Windtown (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66127, -7.53642
- SMR number
- WM006-012----
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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 low lying poorly drained pasture-land. A roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 34m) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, shallow fosse, earthen bank, external shallow fosse, and a third external bank. A rectangular-shaped annexe defined by an earthen bank and external fosse occurs on the N side of the monument. A post-1700 levelled field boundary running NE-SW intersects the site at SE. The interior slopes slightly from N-S, and has traces of cultivation ridges running WSW-ENE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 January 2017
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.