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
- 53.45747, -7.52311
- SMR number
- WM025-124----
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 pasture, with extensive views to ESE and SE. The site of a standing stone (WM025-127----) lies c. 145m to SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area. Levelled monument described in 1971 as vague traces of a roughly oval-shaped earthwork defined intermittently by a very slight rise in the ground which is defined by a dark green cropmark which is assumed to be the backfilled fosse. The entrance is not recognisable. The ‘interior’ has a slight SE-facing slope.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.