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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66245, -7.13594
- SMR number
- WM008-035----
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 in pasture-land on a slight natural rise surrounded by gentle undulating land, with good views to SW, W & NNE. Ringfort (WM008-033---) 250m to NW. A circular shaped area (diam. 32m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved fragmentary earthen bank and a wide, flat-bottomed fosse, filled in at E & SE, and possibly recently re-dug at N. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2m) at ESE. The interior rises towards the centre and has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run NNE-SSW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 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.