Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Piercefield Or Templeoran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercefield Or Templeoran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58889, -7.45354
- SMR number
- WM011-095----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight NNW facing slope in relatively low lying grassland, surrounded by hilly land from N-E-S. The stream which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield lies 25m to the N. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and wide shallow intervening fosse with a slight outer fosse. The outer bank and fosse are only visible from SW-S-SSE. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) in the inner bank at NW and a corresponding gap (Wth 1m) in the outer bank. Four house sites are visible in the interior (WM011-095001-/004-).
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.