Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64050, -7.47677
- SMR number
- WM006-029----
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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 pasture-land, 120m E of a stream which is a tributary of the Inny River. Bog 90m to N and 130m to W. Ringfort (WM006-047----) 140m to SE. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank which has been levelled from W-N, and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5m). The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE with traces of cultivation ridges running across the monument. A series of banks and depressions in the vicinity appear to be drainage features. This site is now surrounded by a forestry plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.