Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathskeagh Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathskeagh Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49549, -7.61892
- SMR number
- WM024-016----
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 very slight N-facing slope, in pasture with good views to NW and N. Ringfort (WM024-017----) 90m to NE. Annotated ‘Rathskeagh Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a bivallate earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as an almost levelled, roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 36m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp (approx. H 1.1m) has been levelled and is low in profile and the fosse (Wth at top 8.3m; basal Wth 2.7m) is wide and shallow (approx. D 1m). The original entrance is not recognisable and the interior has been partially skimmed away. Outline of monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.