Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickfin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickfin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48850, -7.86784
- SMR number
- WM022-019----
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Shown on 5 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 NW-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to N and W and restricted elsewhere. Monument described in 1978 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The earth and stone inner bank is fairly wide, yet low and is almost reduced to a scarp. The remains of a very shallow and narrow intervening fosse are visible from SW-W-N-NE. There are traces of a low outer bank at S and W. The original entrance is not apparent. The interior has cultivation ridges running NW-SE and there are low, stony outcrops in the N & NW quadrants. A later bank intersects the scarp at N and another at E.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.