Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tyfarnham, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyfarnham
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60467, -7.35536
- SMR number
- WM012-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in low lying grass-land, surrounded by hills. Depicted on the 1837 O.S. Fair Plan map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork and annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been almost completely quarried away. All that remains is an L-shaped earthen platform (dims. 20m E-W; 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with traces of a slight external fosse (Wth 4.4m; D 0.45m) visible at W only.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.