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
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.58998, -7.34820
- SMR number
- WM012-106----
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 a gentle slope in grassland, with wide views to S and E. Ringfort (WM012-105---)200m to NW. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank reduced to a scarp inside the field fences which surround the site, except at SW and NE where the field fences run along the line of the original bank location. A gap in the scarp at ESE may represent the location of the original entrance. The interior slopes gently from W-W, and a shallow trench cuts through the monument from NNE-SSW, and appears to be of recent origin.
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.