Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathduff (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathduff (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55407, -7.53950
- SMR number
- WM017-026----
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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, on an elevated area of a gentle NW-facing slope. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; c. 38m NW-SE) defined by a scarp and external fosse, with a field boundary extending from the monument at NE, SW and NW. Depicted on the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area defined by a bank from SW-NE and by a field boundary from NE-SW which extends (long-axis NE-SW) beyond the monument to SW. Levelled monument described in 1975 as ‘demolished’. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 30 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.