Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rath Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51356, -7.77384
- SMR number
- WM016-029----
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 slight rise in an area of wet marshy land near a stream while lies 50m to the N and forms the townland boundary with Coolvin. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening shallow fosse. The inner bank is poorly preserved and fragmentary, the wide fosse has been infilled at S and W, and the low outer bank is only visible at N.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.