Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Emper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60185, -7.58146
- SMR number
- WM010-004----
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 gently undulating grassland with poorly drained rushy land in the vicinity. Ringfort (WM010-005---) 120m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure. Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular shaped area (diam. 26m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank and slight external fosse. The site has been partially levelled. The bank is visible only as a smooth scarp from N-E-SSW and the external fosse is visible from ENE-E-ESE only. The interior slopes from W-E and has traces of low broad cultivation ridges which run WNW-ESE. A possible standing stone (WM010-004001-) is visible in the S quadrant of the interior. Outline of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.