Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Paslicktown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paslicktown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46573, -7.34571
- SMR number
- WM026-064----
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 gentle SW-facing slope, in low-lying pasture. Ringfort (WM026-063----) lies c. 160m to WSW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork in a coppice of trees. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 30.2m N-S; approx. 29m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp. A large portion of the bank has been removed at W leaving a concave indent and there is a small quarry hole in the exterior at E. A modern field fence running NNE-SSW extends outside the base of the bank from NE-E-SE. There is a very wide gap in the bank at SE where the fosse is obscured by vegetation. The fosse is wide and shallow. A house site (WM026-064001-) is visible in the N quadrant. Levelled monument visible today as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.