Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Wooddown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wooddown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52542, -7.24839
- SMR number
- WM019-070----
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 S side of a gentle rise, in good pasture with good views to E, SE and SW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly oval-shaped area (32.5m NNW-SSE; 31.00m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.1m; Wth at top 0.6m; max. Wth 6.5m) is best preserved from S-W-N-NNE and is very fragmentary where it is reduced to a scarp from NNE-E-S. The scarp has been quarried at ESE. The original entrance is not recognisable, although there is a modern gap at NW. The fosse is (Wth at top 3.6m; D 0.15m) best preserved from NW-N-NE and is barely perceptible from ENE-E-SE. Monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as an oval-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
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.