Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45504, -7.87446
- SMR number
- WM022-042----
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 the E side of a high prominent ridge with good views of undulating land to NE, E and SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Partially levelled monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a broad oval-shaped area (dims. 35m N-S; 25.6m E-W) defined by the faint traces of a levelled scarp. There is no visible evidence of an external fosse. The entrance may have been at E, where there is a wide gap (Wth at top 9.7m; basal Wth 3.5m) in the levelled scarp. The interior appears to have had a relatively steep W-facing slope. Now located in the front garden of a modern house which is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.