Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartroncroy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartroncroy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51777, -7.83578
- SMR number
- WM015-018----
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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 top of a prominent natural rise in gently undulating grassland, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) with a field bank on the N and trees on the perimeter, annotated as ‘fort’. The curving field fence from N-E-S follows the line of the perimeter of the ringfort, elsewhere the enclosing element has been levelled to a slight scarp. There are traces of a slight fosse visible at N. The interior slopes slightly from W-E. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.