Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blackmiles, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackmiles
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60989, -7.33516
- SMR number
- WM012-004----
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 rising grassland overlooked by higher ground from E-W. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide deep external fosse. The bank has been steepened from E-S-SW where it is intersected by a field fence which forms the townland boundary with Galmoylestown Lower. The perimeter of the monument has been quarried away at NW. The interior slopes from NE-SW and has traces of cultivation ridges. There is an entrance gap at SW (Wth 1.75m).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.