Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brownstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66186, -7.13783
- SMR number
- WM008-034----
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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 face of a slight natural rise in gently undulating grassland. Overlooked by higher ground to the E and SE, with good views from S-W-NE. Ringfort (WM008-035----) 100m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (diam. 29m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow external fosse. The interior slopes from E-W, and there are traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE. The monument has been substantially levelled. Now visible as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.