Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteen (fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48694, -7.33664
- SMR number
- WM026-027----
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 at N end of a N-S ridge with good views of the surrounding countryside. Impressive hilltop siting along with high raised interior might suggest high status ringfort. Present remains consist of a raised circular-shaped platform (diam. 45m NNE-SSW; 32m WNW-ESE) defined by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp with enclosing deep, wide fosse and external bank which may be a later enclosing field boundary. Possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.7- 6.4m) at ENE which has been widened by livestock.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.