Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45485, -7.48276
- SMR number
- WM025-142----
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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. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and the remains of an outer bank, a gap (Wth at top 4.2m; basal Wth 1.8m) at E may represent the entrance. The bank is present from ENE-E-S-W-N and has been removed from N-NE-ENE. The fosse is visible from S-SW-W and the exterior is much disturbed where there is a modern cultivation scarp. An outer bank is traceable from S-SW-W. There is a modern-looking low, steep, scarp running NW-SE across the interior inside where the bank has been removed. The surface of the interior has been dug away to the NW of this. A possible house site (WM025-142001-) adjoins the interior of the bank at NW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.