Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58816, -7.47664
- SMR number
- WM011-089----
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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 gentle NNE facing slope surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views from NNW-N-ESE. Ringfort (WM011-090----) 140m to SW. Three houses are depicted along the perimeter of the site from N-E on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 18m E-W) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. There is a causeway (Wth 3m; H 0.1m) across the fosse at SE, but no corresponding gap in the bank. A field fence running NW-SE intersects the perimeter of the monument from SW-S, and the remains of a second field fence running NNE-SSW intersects the site at SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.