Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mylestown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mylestown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52315, -7.13188
- SMR number
- WM020-097----
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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 at the foot of a hill, in pasture, with good views from S-SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970-2 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 25.5m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from WSW-NNW and is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere. The U-shaped fosse is only visible from W-N-E. No entrance feature visible. The interior has a gentle SW-facing slope and there are broad cultivation ridges running NE-SW across it. Levelled ringfort is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.