Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcogue, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcogue
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55279, -7.62048
- SMR number
- WM017-003----
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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 natural rise in flat grassland, now enclosed within a modern forestry plantation. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is very poorly preserved, reduced to little more than a scarp. The fosse is shallow, and the outer bank is low and poorly preserved; both are only visible from NW-NE. The interior slopes from NW-SE. A post-1700 field fence running E-W intersects the S perimeter of the site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.