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
- 53.49305, -7.49194
- SMR number
- WM025-048----
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 SW-facing slope of a low rise, in pasture, with good views to SW, W and NW. Bivallate ringfort described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 29m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with possible entrance at SE. The low inner bank is best preserved from NW-N-E-SE and has been reduced to a scarp from SE-S-W-NW. The fosse is wide, deep and U-shaped from NW-N-E-SE and is shallow or completely infilled elsewhere. The outer bank has intermittent disturbance gaps from SSE-S-SW. The inner bank, fosse and outer bank have been much disturbed by quarrying from W-NW. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges visible running WNW-ESE.
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.