Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughagar Beg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughagar Beg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56223, -7.27998
- SMR number
- WM019-017----
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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 low rise near the summit of a high ridge, with good views to N and E. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted as a broad oval-shaped earthwork, delimited by a bank and annotated ‘fort’. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a slightly modified oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 42m E-W; 41m N-S). An OPW field report from 1965 described the monument as a roughly circular rath enclosed by a bank and having an uneven interior. Levelled rath is described by the ASI in 1970 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as the arc of a partial cropmark of differential growth defining the perimeter from NW-E.
See sketch profile of monument drawn by H.A. Wheeler in 1965
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.