Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creggstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53417, -7.11677
- SMR number
- WM020-093----
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 rise, in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 42m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW). Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by two banks with a wide intervening space. The banks are best preserved ESE-S-W-WNW and are disturbed by quarrying in places. The original entrance is not clearly visible. The NNE quadrant of the monument is truncated by a road running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.