Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Froghanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Froghanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62570, -7.26756
- SMR number
- WM007-105----
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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 on the top of a prominent but gentle rise, with excellent views of the surrounding undulating countryside. Bishop’s Lough 220m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed two earthen banks and a wide intervening space or berm (approx. Wth 10m). The overall diameter of the site measures approx. 65m NE-SW. There is a slight fosse outside the inner bank. A gap (Wth 1.8m) at NE in the inner bank represents the entrance. The outer bank is levelled from SSW-N-NE. The remains of a N-S field fence intersects the site at W.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.