Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Galmoylestown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galmoylestown Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59848, -7.33447
- SMR number
- WM012-049----
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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
Sited on SSE facing slope of high ridge in gently undulating grassland with good views to the SW and W, a small lake lies 50m to NE. Ringfort (WM012-050----) 40m to SE. A circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 31m NW-SE) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide shallow external fosse. The bank is almost levelled from NNW-E, and the fosse is visible from SSE-WSW. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3.8m) at ESE. The interior slopes slightly to E. The monument is enclosed by a field fence from WSW-N, and intersected at SE by a post-1700 field fence running NE-SW. Monument clearly visible on aerial photographs taken by Cambridge University in 1968 and 1970 (CUCAP AVO056-057; BDV073).
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.