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
- 53.59195, -7.26361
- SMR number
- WM012-151----
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 top of a high hillock in grassland, with good views of surrounding undulating countryside. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks and an intervening fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 5m) at E. There are modern gaps in the bank at N, WNW, SW & SSW.. The inner bank is low and fragmentary, and the fosse is slight. The outer bank is low, and best preserved from S-NW and has been removed by a road at S and a field fence at NE. The interior slopes towards the E, and contains several humps and hollows, but do not form a recognisable pattern. A modern gap in the bank at WNW reveals the bank to be composed of earth & small stones.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.