Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Walshestown South, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown South
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52770, -7.39054
- SMR number
- WM018-120----
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 a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure planted with some trees around the perimeter. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a slightly modified subcircular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 47m) enclosed by a steep bank and a wide flat-bottomed steep sided fosse. There are modern gaps at N and E. The remains of a possible causewayed entrance (Wth at top 3.5m; basal Wth 1m) are visible at SSE. The outer perimeter has been disturbed by a modern field boundary from SW-W-NW. A short stretch of bank on the outer edge of the fosse at SE may be a later feature. A number of hut sites (WM018-120001-) are located within, abutting the interior of the bank. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.