Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portnashangan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59038, -7.37351
- SMR number
- WM012-089----
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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 NW face of a ridge in grassland, overlooking Ballynafid Lake 180m to the NW. Ringfort (WM012-088----) 80m to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork with trees on the perimeter and annotated as ‘fort’. A modern road is now located on the site of the monument. Described in 1980 as a poorly preserved ringfort consisting of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 4.7m; H 0.4m) and shallow external fosse. The enclosing bank only survives from ESE-S and was reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The interior slopes gradually to the NNE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 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.