Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faughalstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughalstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65352, -7.33925
- SMR number
- WM007-028----
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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 in pasture-land on the SE facing slope of a prominent hill, with commanding views to NE, E, S & W. Lough Derravaragh 480m to SW. Ringfort (WM007-030----) 570m to NE. An oval enclosure (approx. diam. 19m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank with several gaps, and slight fosse. Traces of an outer bank may be a recent feature.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1975.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.