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
- 53.45615, -7.47866
- SMR number
- WM025-143----
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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 top of a small, steep hillock (332ft /101m OD), in gently undulating pasture. Monument described as a much disturbed roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 30.5m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a steep earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.7m) which is almost reduced to a scarp. There is no definite trace of a fosse. A large portion of the perimeter and some of the interior has been quarried away from SE-S-SW. The original entrance is not visible. The interior rises from the bank to the centre and presents a slightly domed appearance which could potentially be man-made or simply the crown of the hillock. The surface of the interior is uneven and the presence of an OS trigonometric station may account for the disturbed appearance. There is a small low sub-rectangular-shaped embankment against the E side of the external face of the bank which is of unknown significance. There are relatively modern plough scarps in the vicinity of the monument.
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.