Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrynagarragh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynagarragh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachrued
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63167, -7.25855
- SMR number
- WM007-101----
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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 small natural terrace in pasture-land on the E facing slope of a prominent hill. Earthwork (WM007-102----) 200m to NE. Monument now levelled and visible as a faint cropmark on Digital Glober aerial photograph taken November 2011. Ringfort described in 1975 as a large oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 53m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by two well preserved earthen banks with intervening deep round bottomed fosse. There is an entrance at E, represented by a gap in the inner bank (Wth 1.5m) a causeway (Wth 5.3m) through the fosse and a gap (Wth 1.3m) in the outer bank.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.