Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Derrynagarragh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynagarragh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63274, -7.24381
- SMR number
- WM007-104----
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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 hill with wide views of the surrounding countryside. Earthwork (WM007-103----) 190m to S. Depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 39m E-W), and described in an OPW field report from 1967 as having a bank and external fosse. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort. Cropmark of this levelled monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.