Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathganny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathganny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62247, -7.39937
- SMR number
- WM011-030----
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 top of a prominent steep hill surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with good views of the surrounding hills. The road which marks the townland boundary with Ballindurrow is 160m to S. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 24m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank. The bank has several disturbance gaps. A roughly circular-shaped raised area is visible in the S quadrant and may be the remains of a hut site (WM011-030001-). There are other raised areas in the interior, but these have been cut by cultivation ridges running N-S, and their function is unclear. A circular raised area in the NE is also visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. A field fence running N-S intersects the perimeter of the monument at E.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.