Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Jeffrystown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jeffrystown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59008, -7.20666
- SMR number
- WM013-042----
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 a low rise in grassland with commanding views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped earthwork with trees in the interior annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on 1850 estate map as a ‘rath planted’ & enclosed within a field fence (NLI 21 F. 80 (29)). This monument was levelled in the 1960s. Now visible as a circular rise (approx. diam. 28m NW-SE) of ground defined by a scarp. Outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 April 2018
References
NLI, 21 F. 80 (29) – National Library of Ireland, Survey of Jeffrystown in the parish of Rathconnell, Co. Westmeath, the estate of Sir R. Levinge. By John Gordon. Folio sheet, coloured, 1850. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.