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
- 53.56545, -7.27780
- SMR number
- WM012-191----
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 the top of a natural rise in undulating grassland. The roadway which marks the townland boundary with Loughagar More lies 40m to E. Ringfort (WM012-193---) 200m to NE. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 37m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone, and a shallow external fosse. The bank is fragmentary, and the fosse has been infilled from E-S-SW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at NNE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior, which slopes to N and E from the centre.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.