Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
MacE, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacE
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63377, -7.52963
- SMR number
- WM006-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the top of a natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land, 15m S of the roadway which marks the boundary between Mace and Kilmacahill or Caraun townlands. Possible deserted medieval settlement earthworks (WM006-039----) 140m to N. Franciscan friary (WM006-038----) 370m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank, best preserved at N, and a slight fosse. The bank, which has several disturbance gaps, appears to have been steepened from NE-S-SSW. Possible entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NW. The interior slopes slightly from NE-SW, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run NNE-SSW. Post-1700 field boundaries intersect the monument at S, SW & NW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.