Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derradd, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derradd
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65883, -7.44442
- SMR number
- WM006-024----
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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. Bog 45m to NE and 130m to SW. Adjacent to railway line, Inny Junction 200m to NW. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank (Wth 6m) and a slight fosse. A gap (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 7.8m) at NE represents the entrance. A post 1700 field boundary intersects the site from NW-W-SW. A large mound of earth partly overlies the bank and fosse at SW, probably spoil from the construction of the railway. The marshy interior slopes gently from S-N and has slight traces of cultivation ridges which run NW-SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.