Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toberclare, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberclare
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48940, -7.86096
- SMR number
- WM022-023----
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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 slight WSW-facing slope, in pasture with good views to SW and NW. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The bank is substantial (ext. H 1-1.5m) and is well preserved, except where denuded either side of the causewayed entrance (Wth at top 6.8m; basal Wth 4.5m) at E. There is a wide, deep U-shaped fosse with a corresponding causeway (Wth at top 4m; overall Wth 6.4m; H 1.1m) at E. There is an outer bank visible from E-SE-SSE with a wide space (approx. Wth 6m) between it and the intervening fosse. A curvilinear field fence is visible from SSE-S-WSW and appears to have been created out of the outer bank. There is a disturbance depression inside the inner bank at NNW. The interior has a slight N-facing slope with cultivation ridges running N-S.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.