Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghadaugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghadaugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54584, -7.22734
- SMR number
- WM020-029----
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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 gentle WSW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument described in 1970 as the quarried remains of a roughly circular shaped area (diam. 32m) enclosed by a steep bank which is almost reduced to a scarp. The bank appears to have been steepened NW-N. There is no visible trace of an outer fosse. The perimeter and much of the interior have been quarried away from N-NE and from ENE-E-S-WSW. There is no visible trace of an entrance. The interior has a gentle WSW-facing slope and an uneven surface. A low, broad ridge running NW-SE extends across the interior and through the centre and may be remains of an internal partition. A modern laneway flanks the monument from NW-N-NE. Partial remains of monument may be visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 06 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.