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
- 53.66860, -7.16459
- SMR number
- WM008-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture with good views from NW-NE. Possible mound-barrow (WM008-013---) 75m to SW. A roughly oval shaped raised area (diam. 30m NE-SW; 24.5m NW-SE) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank, and traces of a wide shallow fosse at N & SW. The interior slopes slightly from SW-NE. A field fence intersects the monument from W-NW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.