Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathaniska, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathaniska
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60880, -7.44388
- SMR number
- WM011-019----
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 rising ground in grassland. Ringfort (WM011-018---) 240m to NW. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (H 1m with entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at WSW. The bank has been levelled from NNE-ENE. The interior slopes gently from SW-NE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.