Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Noughaval, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Noughaval
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52883, -7.77011
- SMR number
- WM016-009----
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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 slight natural rise in gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM016-008----) lies 260m to W. The faint outline of a levelled ringfort is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Upstanding monument described in 1978 as a large sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 58m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by a low, poorly preserved earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior of the monument, which rises slightly towards the centre. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the NW perimeter of the site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.