Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathlevanagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlevanagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59354, -7.36208
- SMR number
- WM012-094----
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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 NE facing slope of hill, surrounded by undulating grassland. A large circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse and a slight outer fosse. The inner bank is poorly preserved, and reduced to a scarp from NE-SSE. The inner fosse is wide and shallow and is best preserved from ESE-WSW, and appears to have been steepened in places. The outer bank is also best preserved from ESE-WSW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 0.9m) in the inner bank and causeway across the inner fosse (Wth 3.5m; H 0.4m) at E. The interior slopes gently from S-W-NE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.