Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Conranstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conranstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45346, -7.50328
- SMR number
- WM025-136----
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 good views of the surrounding landscape. Monument described in 1971 as a small, roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by the slight remains of an earth and stone bank with no visible trace of an external fosse. The site has been planted recently and the outer face of the bank has been faced with large stones and drystone masonry. No entrance feature visible. A conjoined house site (WM025-136001-) and the remains of a partition bank are visible within the interior. A field report from 1977 describes a segmental-shaped annex adjoining the exterior at SE. This in turn has a possible square-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.