Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Russellstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Russellstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49727, -7.29909
- SMR number
- WM026-021----
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 NE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to NE and E, landscaped tree-ring 120m to SSE . Monument described as a subcircular-shaped area (diam. 42.5m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank. There is no visible trace of an external fosse. The bank is best preserved from ESE-S-SW and is almost completely reduced to a scarp from SW-W-N-E-ESE. There is a very wide gap at SW, although a gap (Wth at top 6.7m; basal Wth 2.4m) at E seems to be the most likely as the original entrance. The interior has a gentle ENE-facing slope with faint traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW. A small mound with steep sides is located in the NE quadrant and is either a modern feature or a grass covered rock.
See attached profile surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 30 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.