Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creeve (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creeve (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45178, -7.56700
- SMR number
- WM024-167----
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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 top of a slight rise, in gently undulating, rough pasture and scrub. Ringfort (WM024-168----) lies c. 25m to WNW. Bivallate monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a wide berm, an outer bank and an outer fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. The inner earthen bank is well-defined and there are slight remains of an intervening fosse. A wide berm is present outside the intervening fosse. There is a low linear bank extending radially across the berm at ESE. The remains of an outer earthen bank are almost completely defaced. Slight traces of an outer fosse are visible from SSW-W-N-E-S-SE and are completely filled up from SE-S-SSW. A later bank intersects the outer scarp at ESE. The interior has a gentle rise toward the centre and is traversed by old cultivation ridges running N-S. The site is almost completely obscured by dense vegetation.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 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.