Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Maddadoo, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maddadoo
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48984, -7.63870
- SMR number
- WM024-038----
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 top of a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 44m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is low and defaced in several places. The shallow fosse and low outer bank are visible from NE-E-S. The enclosing elements have been quarried away at SSW and there is a large quarry depression outside the monument at WNW. The original entrance is not visible. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and has cultivation ridges running E-W.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI and aerial photographs taken by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.