Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monroe, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monroe
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56739, -7.42769
- SMR number
- WM011-138----
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 a slight natural rise and surrounded by gently undulating grassland overlooked by a high hill to the N. Ring-barrow (WM011-137----) and stepped-barrow (WM011-159---) 130m to NNW, ringfort (WM011-140---) 200m to NNE. A large oval shaped area (approx. diam. 39m N-S; 43m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and wide deep external fosse. The bank has been quarried away at SSW, WNW & ESE, and the fosse has been infilled from SE-SW. The interior slopes from NW-SE and has traces of wide cultivation ridges which also run in that direction. A field fence running NNE-SSW intersects the site at W; a second field fence intersects the perimeter at NE and a third field fence curves around the fosse from NW-NE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.