Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ranaghan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ranaghan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65235, -7.23539
- SMR number
- WM008-022----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in well drained pasture-land with limited views of the surrounding fields. Ringfort (WM008-023----) 170m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks, intervening fosse and outer fosse. The inner bank has several disturbance gaps. The inner fosse has been filled in at SE & SW-W. The outer bank has been disturbed by field fences at W and S. The interior slopes gently from N-S, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run E-W.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.