Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farrannamoreen,cartronkeel (kilkenny West By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farrannamoreen,cartronkeel (kilkenny West By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48641, -7.85629
- SMR number
- WM022-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gentle S-facing slope, with good views to N, E and S, overlooked by gently rising ground to W. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 and 1976 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 39m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is quite low and almost reduced to a scarp. The intervening fosse is wide and shallow. The outer bank is low and wide and it is overlain by a post-1700 field bank at S and W. There is no obvious entrance feature. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope and is quite uneven with wide shallow depressions & low rises. The enclosing element of the monument from SSE-S-W-NNW represents the townland boundary with Farrannamoreen.
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.