Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grangestown (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangestown (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65857, -7.31168
- SMR number
- WM007-031----
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 a natural hillock in low lying wet pasture-land. Yellow River 130m to E. Ringfort (WM007-032----) 140m to SE. A sub-circular raised area (approx. dims. 40m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight fosse. The raised interior has been severely impacted by quarrying. A gravel pit associated with quarrying is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No antiquity is shown at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1875 ed. OS 6-inch map the possible monument is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork with a gravel pit in the NE quadrant of the interior with an access path entering the gravel pit at NE. This earthwork may be the result of post-medieval quarrying.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.