Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Portaneena, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portaneena
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.45990, -7.87896
- SMR number
- WM022-040----
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 NE-facing slope, toward the summit of a prominent hill, in pasture and overlooking Killinure Lough to W, good views to NE and E. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. There are a few irregular depressions across the site and a slight growth of gorse. Barely visible outline of levelled monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. May have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring associated with Easthill Ho. located 200m to SSE.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.