Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rahadorrish, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahadorrish
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52569, -7.60152
- SMR number
- WM017-069----
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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 NNW-facing slope, in pasture with good views to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped tree-lined enclosure with straight side to WNW and field boundary extending from N. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly D-shaped earthwork with straight side along WNW and a roughly curvilinear enclosing element from N-E-S-W and an external fosse from SE-S-W. Levelled monument described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. Levelled ringfort visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 19 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.