Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Edmondstown (farbill By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edmondstown (farbill By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53079, -7.15655
- SMR number
- WM020-080----
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, on NNE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views NE-E-S-W-NW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970-2 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 31.6m WNW-ESE; 28m NNE-SSW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (overall Wth 5.2m; top Wth 0.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) that is best preserved NE-E-S-W-NNW and is much disturbed by modern quarrying from NNW-N-NE. Part of a modern field bank running WNW-ESE has been incorporated into the enclosing elements from SE-S-SW. The original entrance is not visible and there is no visible external fosse. The interior has a S-facing slope and there are modern earthen mounds deposited within.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.