Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrynagarragh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynagarragh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64014, -7.24676
- SMR number
- WM007-065----
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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 prominent natural rise in pasture-land with good views of the surrounding hills. Ringfort (WM007-064----) 215m to NNE. An oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 34m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, steep wide flat-bottomed fosse and outer bank, disturbed at N where an E-W field fence intersects the monument. There are several disturbance gaps in both banks. The entrance at S is represented by a gap in the inner bank (Wth 2.2m), a causeway (Wth 2.3m; H 0.4m) across the fosse and a gap in the outer bank (Wth 1.3m). The interior has slight traces of cultivation ridges which run N-S.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.