Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boardsland, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boardsland
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49818, -7.81251
- SMR number
- WM023-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 good views in all directions with ringfort (WM023-017----) 30m to NNE. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 52m) enclosed by a bank (H 1.5-2m) that has been incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N and has been disturbed by quarrying. The original entrance is not clearly visible, although there is a gap at S. The interior rises toward the centre and has traces of cultivation ridges running E-W. A field bank and drain curve around the exterior of the monument from NE-E-SSE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.