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
- 53.65558, -7.33044
- SMR number
- WM007-030----
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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 S face of a slight slope in hilly pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-029----) 280m to NW. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 47m N-S; 43m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank (approx. Wth 4m) disturbed by quarrying at SW, NW & NNE, and a wide deep round-bottomed fosse which has been filled in from SSE-S-W-WNW. Possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at S. The raised interior has vague traces of cultivation ridges. Possible remains or traces of an external bank at ENE.
See attached section 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.