Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Irishtown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Irishtown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55922, -7.56083
- SMR number
- WM017-016----
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 W facing slope of rising ground, surrounded by poor grassland. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m E-W) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with very slight remains of an external fosse. The bank has evidence of internal stone facing visible from NE-SW. The interior is uneven and contains dumps of stone. A relict field bank has levelled the perimeter of the monument at NE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.