Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange North, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange North
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52292, -7.38452
- SMR number
- WM019-045----
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 in pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 42m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by a bank, intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is steep and uneven. There are several modern disturbances within the interior comprising of humps and hollows. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a tree-lined earthwork.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 03 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.