Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tevrin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tevrin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56762, -7.20362
- SMR number
- WM013-087----
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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 hillock in undulating rocky grassland. The road which forms the townland boundary with Killynan lies 20m to W. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped mound with enclosed by a fosse and annotated as a 'fort' on the OS Fair Plan map. Partially hachured as a sub-circular shaped monument on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps indicating that the monument had been partially quarried away. The upstanding monument was described in 1967 as a natural hillock which had been partially quarried with the sides of the hillock levelled up in places form a terrace defined by a bank or scarp (H 1.2m) with no external fosse visible. Mass rock (WM013-119----) located at E edge of field consists of a natural boulder possible splintered by weathering (OPW Field Report 14/11/1967). Today there are no surface remains visible of the levelled monument on top of a low hillock (approx. diam. 21m).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.