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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45202, -7.56809
- SMR number
- WM024-168----
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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, pasture. Ringfort (WM024-167----) lies c. 25m to ESE. Bivallate monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a berm, an outer bank and an outer fosse with entrance at SSW. The inner bank of earth and stone is wide and low and is set on a fairly steep natural scarp from WSW-W-WNW. There are slight remains of a shallow intervening fosse visible from NE-E, outside which is a flat berm varying in width from 4m at N and S to 10m at E. On the outer edge of the berm there is a low outer bank of earth and stone. An outer fosse is visible beyond this from S-SW-W-N-NE. The interior is very uneven with stony outcrops, low rises & shallow depressions.
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.