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
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52207, -7.76941
- SMR number
- WM016-013----
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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 gentle SE facing slope of a prominent hill in grassland. A large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 53m NW-SE), enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank which has been reduced to a scarp from NNW-N-E-SE. Vague traces of cultivation ridges are visible in the interior, which slopes slightly from WNW-ESE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.