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
- 53.65363, -7.22899
- SMR number
- WM008-024----
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 SE facing slope of rising overlooking Lough Lene to the NW, N & E. Ringfort (WM008-023----) 200m to SW. No surface remains visible. The site has been levelled. Depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 29m 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.