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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55649, -7.59966
- SMR number
- WM017-117----
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
Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-lined enclosure. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 25m). Monument described in 1973 as a circular-shaped enclosure measuring ’36 paces internal diameter. On slight natural rise (alt. 200 – 300 ft) in gently undulating pasture. Thorn hedge round perimeter. Low platform (c. 2 ft high) with straight drop (partly revetted with dry stone) outside. No fosse & no proper bank. Presumably a small ringfort partly reused as a small garden. A few boulders around edge, presumably cleared off the land' (OPW Site report 25/01/1973). Monument visible today on Digital Globe photographs as a tree-lined circular-shaped enclosure. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments, Iris Oifigiúil, 11 February 1975.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.