Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughagar More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughagar More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56985, -7.26570
- SMR number
- WM012-195----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of ridge in gently undulating grassland. Concentric enclosure (WM012-194----) 70m the NW. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 43m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is low and has been levelled from SW-W. The fosse is wide and deep, and the outer bank is low, and has been levelled from N-E. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) and causeway (Wth 4.2m; H 0.4m) across the fosse at NE. The interior rises appreciably towards the centre. Field fences intersect the perimeter of the monument at SE and SW. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 13/05/1986.
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
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.