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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47505, -7.63205
- SMR number
- WM024-081----
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 low rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to S, W and N and overlooked by higher ground to E. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular shaped area (dims. 37m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is high and has almost been reduced to a scarp. It is disturbed by quarrying and has several cattle gaps, however a wider gap (Wth at top 5.7m; basal Wth 2.5m) at SE may represent the entrance. A modern stone wall running NW-SE extends just outside the scarp from N-NE. There are slight traces of an external fosse visible from NE-E-S-W-N. The interior has a general ESE-facing slope. The surface of the interior has been dug away in places and there are large rock outcrops elsewhere within.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.