Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portnashangan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.58557, -7.37873
- SMR number
- WM012-100----
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 NW facing slope of low rise of ground, surrounded by gently undulating land, with good views of Lough Owel 350m to SW. Ringfort (WM012-099----) 250m to SW. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and shallow external fosse, the interior of the fort is now reused as a farmyard. The bank survives from ESE-S-NNW, and the external fosse is visible from W-N. Farm buildings encroach on the perimeter at N and E. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.