Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Piercefield Or Templeoran,johnstown (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercefield Or Templeoran,johnstown (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57683, -7.45564
- SMR number
- WM011-126----
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 hill in grassland with good views. The public road which forms the boundary with Johnstown townland intersects the NE half of the site and has levelled it on this side. All that remains now is a substantial earthen bank (Wth 1.5m) visible on the S side of the road which curves from S-W with a wide shallow external fosse.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.