Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rackavra, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rackavra
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47933, -7.62478
- SMR number
- WM024-041----
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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 rise, in gently undulating, low lying pasture. Monument described in 1971 and 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 39.50m N-S; 38.50m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse with a gap (Wth at top 3.7m; Wth at base 1.7m) at N which may represent the entrance, a wide gap at SE has been partly blocked with stones. The bank is best preserved from NE-S and is almost reduced to a scarp from S-W-WNW. There is a large stone set on edge on the bank interior at S. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope and has cultivation ridges running NW-SE.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.