Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brittas (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56750, -7.28801
- SMR number
- WM012-185----
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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 low rise on the N facing slope of an undulating ridge. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly circular shaped enclosure annotated ‘fort’. This site has been almost completely levelled. Remains consist of a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved wide bank of earth and stone which survives from W-NW (Wth 5.1m; max. H 0.45m), and is reduced to a scarp elsewhere. A field fence running E-W, which is also the townland boundary with Knockdrin, intersects the perimeter of the monument at N. This site now appears to have been completely levelled, and the cropmark of the levelled monument is visible in the ploughed field shown on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
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