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
- 53.65043, -7.31917
- SMR number
- WM007-046----
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 S face of a ridge which runs NW-SE with good views from S-E-W. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as ‘fort’, and depicted as a sub-circular earthwork (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site has been levelled. All that remains is a short segment of a wide shallow fosse at S. It is visible as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.