Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48245, -7.50038
- SMR number
- WM025-047----
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 low rise, in undulating pasture, with good views to E and SE. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 33.4m) enclosed by a bank with no trace of a fosse or entrance feature. The monument is much disturbed and the low bank is visible from NW-N and from ESE-SE-S. The bank has been reduced to a scarp from WSW-NW and the exterior has been quarried at NW. The interior has a SSE-facing slope and has traces of cultivation ridges running WSW-ENE. There is evidence of quarrying in the SE quadrant and there are facing stones set on edge defining the quarry scarp and enclosing bank at this location. A field boundary running NW-SE abuts the monument at SW.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 10 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.