Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rickardstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rickardstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61049, -7.20129
- SMR number
- WM013-008----
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 upper SW facing slope of a high ridge in undulating grassland, with good views from SE-W. Levelled monument barely visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Upstanding monument described in 1976 as consisting of a raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening shallow fosse. The inner bank is poorly preserved, the outer bank being more substantial. Quarrying has destroyed both banks at SE. The interior slopes slightly to ESE. Grass covered outline of rectangular house site (WM013-008001-) visible in centre of ringfort.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.