Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Williamstown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Williamstown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55850, -7.63810
- SMR number
- WM017-002----
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 low lying wet grassland, with fairly good views all around. A small circular shaped area (approx. diam. 19m N-S; 17 m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth. 2.8m) at SE. The inner bank is low and fragmentary, the fosse is shallow and the outer bank has been reduced to a scarp at NW. The interior slopes slightly from N-S.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.