Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monintown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monintown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63068, -7.33017
- SMR number
- WM007-084----
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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. Lough Derravaragh 180m to NE. A sub-circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 49m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank from W-N-E the E, and almost completely levelled elsewhere. This is enclosed by a wide, deep flat-bottomed fosse, best preserved at N, has been quarried away from ESE-SE-S. Entrance gap (Wth 4m) at ENE. The interior slopes from WSW-ENE and has traces of cultivation ridges running WSW-ENE. A post-1700 field fence running NW-SE intersects the site from S-W.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.