Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
MacEtown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacEtown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55033, -7.26826
- SMR number
- WM019-050----
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 the WNW side of a low ridge, in pasture with good views to SSW, W and NNE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1970 as an almost completely ploughed out roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 39.3m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by the remains of a scarp and an external fosse. The levelled scarp (max. H 0.6m) is visible from SSE-S-W-NNW. The outer fosse (approx. Wth 4.8m) is traceable as a cropmark from SSE-S-W-N-E which is defined as an area of differential growth. The original entrance is not recognisable. A modern field fence running NNE-SSW skirts the monument to ESE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a suboval-shaped cropmark.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 03 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.