Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Catherinestown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Catherinestown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48759, -7.31145
- SMR number
- WM026-032----
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 low rise of ground on wet marshy land in area now planted with coniferous trees. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map but as a rectangular shaped earthwork on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. The shape of the monument appears to have been modified when a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW was constructed on the S side of the monument. This field boundary now forms the enclosing element of the monument on the SW side. Present remains consist of a sub-rectangular shaped area (diam. 37m NW-SE x 30m NE-SW) enclosed by poorly preserved remains of a low bank and external fosse, no clear entrance feature visible. The grass-covered wall footings of two hut sites (WM026-032001-/002-) are visible in the centre of the ringfort.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.