Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraree, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraree
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58519, -7.31062
- SMR number
- WM012-137----
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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 the lower S facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland with good views to SE and SW. Ringfort (WM012-136---) 90m to SW. This site has been levelled, and is visible only as a cropmark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Described in 1970 as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) enclosed by a two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is low and wide (Wth 6.8m; H 0.4m), the wide fosse (Wth 5.4m) is visible from N-E-SE, and the low outer bank (Wth 1.9m; H 0.52m) arcs around the fosse. There is an entrance gap at S. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior, which slopes to the SSW. A field fence originally ran along the line of the perimeter from S-NW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.