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
- 53.47306, -7.62382
- SMR number
- WM024-085----
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 NE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is high and steep and is almost reduced to a scarp with several small disturbance gaps. The fosse is best preserved at S and elsewhere it is either infilled, disturbed or obscured by modern field fences which encroach on the site at NW, N and NE. A much disturbed gap (Wth at top 5.9m; basal Wth 2m) at NE may represent the entrance, although there is no visible trace of a causeway. The interior has a NE-facing slope.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.