Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Paddinstown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paddinstown Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56854, -7.59508
- SMR number
- WM010-024----
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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 a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM010-025----) 360m to NE. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam 30m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening wide deep fosse. The inner bank is substantial, while the poorly preserved outer bank is only faintly visible from S-W-NW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) and causeway (Wth 5.8m; H 0.6m) through the inner bank and fosse at SSE. The interior slopes slightly from S-N.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.