TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Cooksborough, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cooksborough, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cooksborough
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53572, -7.24730
SMR number
WM019-069----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, directly overlooking swampy ground to SSE, good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork (approx. dims. 33m N-S; 29m E-W). Monument described in 1972 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earthen bank, fosse, and external bank, a wide gap (Wth at top 9.5m; basal Wth 4.5m) at SE may mark the entrance. The inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2.3m; max. Wth 2.5m) is best preserved from NE-E-ESE and from SSE-S-SSW and is barely traceable elsewhere. The U-shaped fosse and the outer bank are visible from NW-N-NNE. The end of the outer bank has been modified at NNE to form a modern bank. A recent pile of stones has been deposited against the scarp at E and at SE. The interior has a general NNW-facing slope. Monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a circular-shaped, partially 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Westmeath All County Westmeath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map