Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghbrack, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghbrack
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55764, -7.28821
- SMR number
- WM019-022----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a modified roughly oval-shaped earthwork incorporated into field boundaries from NW-N-NE.
Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by a bank which has been denuded down to a scarp in places and vague traces of an outer fosse. The bank is fragmentary in general and has been steepened in modern times from NW-N-NE, where there is a modern field bank on its upper edge, as depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. There are two small quarried depressions in the bank at E. A modern fence running NNE-SSW intwersects the bank at SSW and from SSW-W-NW there is a modern wire fence along the bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. There is a modern trackway across the scarp at S and at WNW. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and has traces of cultivation ridges running NNW-SSE. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.