Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53692, -7.08284
- SMR number
- WM021-002----
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 low rise, in undulating pasture, good views in all directions, albeit overlooked by a small ridge at N. Grange More House (now in ruins) lies c. 260m to SE. Monument described in 1980 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is reduced to a moderate scarp from ENE-E-S-W-NW and as a very low scarp from NW-N, being almost levelled from N-E-ENE. There is a modern gap at NNE but there is no sign of an original entrance. A wide and shallow intervening fosse is visible from S-W-NW. The outer bank of earth and stone is present from SSW-W-NNW, where it is quite low. There is a gap at W but this appears to be relatively modern. The interior has an irregular SSW-facing slope and is featureless. NW-W-S. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 09 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.