Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullaghan (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghan (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55023, -7.37510
- SMR number
- WM019-029----
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, c. 400m to S of Lough Owel, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Annotated 'fort' on the OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a modified suboval-shaped earthwork.
Levelled monument described in 1970 as an almost completely levelled subcircular-shaped area (dims. 49m ESE-WNW; 43m NNE-SSW) defined by a levelled bank which can be traced in places where it is represented by a very slight scarp (H 0.35m). The entrance way is not recognisable. The interior has gentle humps and hollows. Monument is visible today as a suboval-shaped cropmark 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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.