Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Piercetown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercetown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55712, -7.60288
- SMR number
- WM017-010----
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 top of a high prominent hill in grassland, with excellent views in all directions. Ringfort (WM017-117---) 200m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small roughly circular shaped enclosure with some trees on the perimeter, annotated as a ‘fort’. This poorly preserved site has been partially levelled and has been much degraded. All that remains is a sub-circular shaped rise of ground defined by a scarp (approx. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by slight traces of an external fosse. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments, Iris Oifigiúil, 11 February 1975.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.