Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Southhill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Southhill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61151, -7.07827
- SMR number
- WM014-006----
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 hillock on the demesne lands of South Hill House located 520m to E. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval enclosure planted with trees within an outer oval enclosure, annotated as ‘fort’. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 24m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse and external fosse. The interior slopes from NW-SE. Tree stumps are visible around the perimeter of the monument. Depicted as a landscaped tree-ring on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Could be the remains of a ringfort reused as a tree-ring or could be the remains of a landscape feature associated with South Hill house.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.