Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardnagragh (Digby), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnagragh (Digby)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47492, -7.79110
- SMR number
- WM023-052----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a very slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 42m E-W; 36.6m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp on the interior, with several modern gaps. A portion of the bank has been quarried away from SSE-S-WSW and a modern stone wall has been built just outside the base, where the ground is also disturbed. There are traces of a wide intervening fosse which is best preserved from SE-ESE. The outer bank is well defined and best preserved from SE-ESE, being visible in places outside the modern wall. Elsewhere, the ground at the foot of the outer bank is disturbed and a modern field bank intersects at ENE. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument 05/02/1975 (SMR file).
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.