Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Piercefield, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercefield
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59292, -7.44399
- SMR number
- WM011-096----
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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 in grassland on the N face of a prominent hill with good views of the surrounding countryside. A large circular shaped area (approx. diam. 81m N-S; 83m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening wide shallow fosse. The inner bank is substantial, but has been levelled from ENE-E-SE, and the fosse has been filled in from E-SE. The outer bank is best preserved on the N & S sides. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior. A field fence running ESE-WSW intersects the monument, and utilises the inner bank as part of the fence from ESE-S-WSW. The bank has been steepened and faced with dry stone walling where it has been used as a fence.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.