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
- 53.48480, -7.48263
- SMR number
- WM025-056----
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 slight rise, in gently undulating and low-lying wet pasture, with good views in all directions. A ringfort (WM025-057----) lies c. 145m to SW. Bivallate ringfort described in 1977 as a large circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank of earth and stone is low and rounded. The banks have been levelled from NNE-NE, where the perimeter is marked instead by a low rise. There is a fairly well preserved intervening fosse and an outer bank at NW. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope and a rectangular-shaped house site (WM025-056001-) in the centre.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 11 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.