Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooksborough, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooksborough
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53311, -7.24169
- SMR number
- WM020-061----
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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 relatively low-lying and gently undulating rough, wet pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork with a laneway abutting to NE. Monument described in 1970 as a small D-shaped area (dims. 31m E-W; 29.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse. The bank (Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) has almost been reduced to a scarp. A portion of the bank has been removed from NNE-E-ESE, possibly when a laneway was constructed to NE. There are traces of a fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not visible. The interior has several slight natural humps and hollows. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.