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
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.45321, -7.53458
- SMR number
- WM025-126----
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 in pasture and woodland. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner and outer banks are visible intermittently. A house site (WM025-126001-) is located within the centre of the interior. The site was previously planted with trees and these have now been felled. Monument visible as a subcircular-shaped univallate earthwork on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AOY083) taken 12/07/1966. Monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped, partially tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 September 2019
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.