Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carn (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47619, -7.56435
- SMR number
- WM024-117----
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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
Sited on top of a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 20.1m E-W; 19.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank (Wth at top 0.8m; basal Wth 1.1m) of earth and stone has several slight depressions at W and a gap at NE which may represent the entrance. The intervening fosse is well-defined. The remains of a outer bank of stone are best defined at SE and NNW and are much disturbed at NE, where there is a modern depression (Wth at top 3.4m; basal Wth 1.4m; D 0.35m). The interior has a slight ESE-facing slope and no features of significance.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.