Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farrannamoreen, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farrannamoreen
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48222, -7.84750
- SMR number
- WM022-026----
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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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with reasonable views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument most of which has been quarried away that was described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area defined by the remains of a short segment of scarp at S. The rest of this earthwork has been completely removed by quarrying and trenching. Some of the trenches have been refilled with stone. Site is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs as an irregular shaped area greatly disturbed by quarrying with no clear evidence of any enclosing features.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.