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
- 53.46749, -7.55220
- SMR number
- WM024-125----
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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 small steep rocky knoll, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 37.5m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse, a wide gap at E presumably represents the entrance. The bank (ext. H 0.7m) is high and steep on the exterior although it is low on the interior, having the remains of an internal stone facing at NW and ESE. There is a modern gap in the bank at NE. There are very slight remains of an outer fosse which is partly obscured around the outer edge by a modern stone wall. The interior rises gently from the perimeter to the centre where there is a house site (WM024-127001-). Immediately inside the ringfort bank at NNW are slight remains of an earth and stone radial bank (approx. L 4-5m) and there are similar remains at SE.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 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.