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
- 53.64497, -7.22219
- SMR number
- WM008-051----
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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 the ENE face of a high ridge running WNW-ESE, with excellent views to the N & NE. Ringfort (WM008-052----) 200m to NE. Ringfort (WM008-050----) 190m to N. A field fence which is also the townland boundary with Collinstown skirts the E side of the monument. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30.6m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and deep-flat-bottomed external fosse. The bank is fragmentary, and the fosse has been filled up from N-E where it has been intersected by a post-1700 field fence. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at ENE. The interior slopes from W-E.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.