Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bracklin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bracklin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57358, -7.10496
- SMR number
- WM013-104----
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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 rise of ground surrounded by undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM013-105---) 310m to E. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m NE-SW) enclosed by two poorly preserved earth and stone banks, with an intervening fosse and external fosse. The inner bank has been levelled and mostly reduced to a scarp. The inner fosse is wider from NW-ENE, and there is an intervening space (Wth. 9m) between the inner fosse and outer bank on the N side of the monument.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.