Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnamuddagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnamuddagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47716, -7.47833
- SMR number
- WM025-097----
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 the S-facing slope of a rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to NW and SE. Monument described in 1971, 1977 and 1989 as a small, roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 25m N-S) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is almost reduced to a scarp from NE-E-S-SSW. It has traces of internal and external stone facing at NE. It has been quarried WSW-W and at N and the bank exterior has been disturbed by livestock at E. The fosse and low, fragmentary outer bank are visible from NW-N-E. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a S-facing slope and there is a house site (WM025-097001-) in the SW quadrant. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 28/02/1989.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 23 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.