Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Jamestown (rathconrath By., Jamestown Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jamestown (rathconrath By., Jamestown Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45924, -7.52997
- SMR number
- WM025-120----
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, in Jamestown Demesne, with good views to SE. Monument described as a circular-shaped area (dims. 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank with external fosse, a wide gap at SW may represent the entrance. The low earth and stone bank has been modified and steepened from W-N-E-S and has several small disturbance gaps. A portion of bank at SSW (overall Wth 2.3m; Wth at top 0.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) is original and undisturbed. The shallow external fosse has been disturbed in places. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope and has cultivation ridges running E-W. A field boundary running NW-SE abuts the monument to SW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.