Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monkstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58746, -7.27517
- SMR number
- WM012-147----
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 SE facing slope of a gently rising hill in grassland, with good views to the W and NNE. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 37m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a very low poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight external fosse. The bank has been reduced to little more than a scarp, and the fosse has been filled in from ENE-ESE. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.1m) at ENE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running ENE-WSW across the interior, which slopes generally to the SE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.