Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dungaghy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dungaghy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47878, -7.62781
- SMR number
- WM024-042----
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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 pasture with stream c. 75m to NE. Ringfort (WM024-041----) lies c. 168m to NE. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed suboval-shaped area (diam. 36m) defined by the remains of a bank visible from SE-S-W-NNW where it is almost reduced to a scarp and it has been removed from NNW-N-E-SE. There is no definite trace of an external fosse. A gap (Wth at top 3.8m; basal Wth 1.7m) at SSE may represent an entrance. The surface of the interior is very uneven and there is an irregular-shaped disturbance depression inside the upper edge of the scarp at SSW. In the centre of the interior are the remains of a large house site (WM024-042001-). The site is encroached by other banks and scarps in the vicinity of the exterior.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.