Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bryanmore Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bryanmore Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46437, -7.77102
- SMR number
- WM023-057----
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 WNW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture with excellent views to WSW, W, and N. Lady Well (WM023-089----) 60m to SSE. Monument described in 1971 a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank that is much disturbed and almost reduced to a scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable and there is no definite trace of an external fosse. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope and several humps and hollows which are due to disturbance. There is a post-1700 quarry hole adjacent to NE. Modern house and garden plot built into N quadrant of enclosure which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
See attached profile of monument which was surveyed and drawn by the ASI
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.