Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glenidan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenidan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67909, -7.16236
- SMR number
- WM008-011----
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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 summit of a narrow steep ridge, overlooked by higher hills to the N & E. A raised oval-shaped area (diam. 23.4m E-W; 19.6m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, and external fosse, visible only from NE-E & S-SW. The interior is level, and an irregular shallow depression visible in the SE quadrant is probably a relatively recent feature.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.