Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rochfort Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46871, -7.36747
- SMR number
- WM026-053----
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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 steep hillock, in undulating pasture with good views in all directions, including toward Lough Ennell which is visible to W. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a large circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork (approx. dims. 51.5m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by a scarp. Monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. The siting would be suitable for a ringfort. Outline of levelled monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 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.