Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Jamestown (rathconrath By., Jamestown Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jamestown (rathconrath By., Jamestown Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45371, -7.54022
- SMR number
- WM024-170----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise, in undulating pasture. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 37.3m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse with entrance gap (Wth at top 5.2m; basal Wth 2m) at E. The bank is best preserved from WNW-NW and is almost reduced to a steep scarp elsewhere. The fosse is wide, deep and flat-bottomed from WNW-NNW and is almost completely infilled from NNW-N-E-S-W-WNW. The interior has a gentle NNE-facing slope with a house site (WM024-170001-) in the S quadrant and a house site (WM024-170002-) in the E quadrant.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.