Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Walderstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walderstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46653, -7.79304
- SMR number
- WM023-055----
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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 top of a small hillock, overlooking gently undulating demesne parkland, 90m N of Dorrington House. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork, possibly a tree-ring on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1983 as the remains of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 28m) defined by a scarp best preserved from NW-N-E-SE, poorly defined from SE-S-SW with only faint traces visible from SW-W-NW. There are no indications of an external fosse and the interior has no discernible features. May have been a ringfort reused as a tree-ring or may be the remains of a post-1700 tree-ring associated with the demesne landscaping of Dorrington House. Visible today as an oval shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.