Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pearsonsbrook, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pearsonsbrook
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47468, -7.85474
- SMR number
- WM022-033----
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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 the N side of a prominent hill, in pasture with good views to NE and W. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 as a large, roughly circular-shaped area (dims. approx. 52m E-W; 50m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. A slight gap (Wth at top 4.4m; basal Wth 2m) and causeway (Wth at top 2.5m; overall Wth 5.6m; H 0.3m) across the base of the fosse at SSW may represent the remains of an original entrance. The inner bank is almost reduced to a scarp and is slightly defaced in several places, being almost completely levelled from W-NW-NNW. There is a small stone quarry in the scarp at W. There is a wide and deep U-shaped intervening fosse. An outer bank is visible from N-NE and has a modern gap at NNE. The interior has a slight S-facing slope.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.