Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farrancallin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farrancallin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59829, -7.28589
- SMR number
- WM012-071----
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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 gentle NE slope in grassland. The land rises gently from the site to S-SW and W, with good views in other directions. Ringfort (WM012-069----) 200m to WNW. A raised circular shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 34m EW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a slight external fosse. The bank is best preserved from S-W-WNW, and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The interior has a slight slope from SSW-NNE. There is a possible entrance at SE, where there is a slight depression (Wth 1.2m) in the scarp. Just outside this is a large possible quarry hole. A field fence running NNE-SSW intersects the perimeter of the monument at NNW.
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.