Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheefin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheefin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59477, -7.29195
- SMR number
- WM012-068----
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 SE facing slope of a prominent hill with good views from NE-E-SW, overlooked by higher ground to NW. This site has been almost completely levelled. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by a two very low broad banks, an intervening fosse and an external fosse. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE. A post-1837 field fence intersects the perimeter at NE. The S perimeter of the monument has been quarried away at S. This site is now situated in a coniferous forestry plantation which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.