Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathskeagh Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathskeagh Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48467, -7.62036
- SMR number
- WM024-043----
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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 gently undulating pasture with good views to E, S and W. Poorly preserved monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed subcircular-shaped area defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from N-E-S-W-WNW where it is almost reduced to a scarp. The scarp is quite steep and has large stones forming an external facing. The bank has been levelled from WNW-NW-N. There are traces of a fosse in places. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is much disturbed by cultivation ridges running N-S across the W half and running E-W across the E half.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.