Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shinglis, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shinglis
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52379, -7.69362
- SMR number
- WM016-022----
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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 high prominent gravel hill with good views in all directions. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and a shallow intervening fosse. The inner bank is low, and the fosse is only visible in the SW and NE quadrants. The outer bank is very low, little more than a berm and is only visible from SE-S. Vague traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior, in which several depressions are also visible, probably the result of quarrying. This ringfort is situated in a commercial quarry, and the ground has been quarried away all around the monument which is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.