Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Davidstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Davidstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55267, -7.52085
- SMR number
- WM018-011----
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
Represented on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map as a complete pear-shaped enclosure with the narrow end pointing to the E and partly truncated on its W side by a field boundary. The estimate original dimensions are c. 43m E-W by c. 37m N-S. That larger portion of the monument (i.e. to the SE of the field boundary) is represented as a series of single hachures, indicating a raised area, on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1910-13); the W component is not indicated. An inspection in 1990 recorded the monument as consisting of a sub-circular area bounded by a low earthen bank set on a low scarp: there was no evidence of a fosse. The section of the monument to the NW, beyond the boundary, had been removed. The interior of the surviving SE portion was uneven and part of the SW and W areas appeared to have been the subject of quarrying activities in the past. A souterrain (WM018-011001-) was discovered in the NW portion of the monument in 1990. Monument registered as a Historic Monument in 1990.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.