Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Habsborough, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Habsborough
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50363, -7.42720
- SMR number
- WM025-021----
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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to SE and S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Poorly preserved monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 24.5m) which has almost been completely levelled. The monument is bisected by a field fence running NNW-SSE and is best preserved as a slight rise to E of this. Modern house and driveway built immediately N and W of ringfort visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.