Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53066, -7.29546
- SMR number
- WM019-065----
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, overlooking a pond to E, good views to E, S and N. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a subcircular-shaped area (diam. 23.5m NNW-SSE; 22.5m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank (basal Wth 3.6m; Wth at top 0.8m). with no visible trace of a fosse. A gap (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.35m; Wth at top 3.2m; basal Wth 1.8m) at NE may indicate an entrance. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope and has traces of cultivation ridges. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.