Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Toorbeg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toorbeg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45267, -7.73695
- SMR number
- WM023-076----
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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 in relatively low-lying, wet pasture with good views to NE, E and SE. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as the arc of an enclosure bisected by a field boundary running N-S. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a semi-circular shaped earthwork (dims. 33m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) bisected at E by a field boundary running N-S with no evidence for enclosing element on E side of field boundary. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.