Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Wattstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wattstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57105, -7.42196
- SMR number
- WM011-141----
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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 natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views of Lough Owel to the NE and SE. A raised circular shaped area (approx. diam 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and external fosse. This fragmentary bank is visible from S-W-WNW and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The interior has an appreciable slope from SW-NE and has traces of cultivation ridges which run in the same direction. A field fence with mature trees curves around the perimeter of the monument from W-N-NE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.