Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughanstown (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanstown (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59117, -7.35124
- SMR number
- WM012-105----
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 ENE facing slope just below summit of a steep hill in grassland, with views restricted by the surrounding hills. Ringfort (WM012-096---) 150m to NW, ringfort (WM012-106---) 200m to SE. This site appears to have been levelled, and is now visible only as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Upstanding monument described in 1970 as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight external visible from S-W, and has been steepened at W. There is a gap with a wooden gate at NNE. The interior slopes steeply to the NNE. Field fences intersect the perimeter at NW, N, NNE and S.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.