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
- 53.65829, -7.33275
- SMR number
- WM007-029----
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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 in pasture-land on the NE face side of a high prominent ridge which runs NW-SE, with extensive views from NW-N-E. Ringfort (WM007-030----) 280m to SE. A circular area (approx. diam. 28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank, narrow shallow fosse, best preserved at S and almost completely filled in elsewhere. Possible entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at NE. The interior slopes appreciably from SW-NE, and contains a series of banks and a long sub-rectangular depression which could be the remains of a possible hut site or the result of post-medieval quarrying.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.