Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrick (fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46024, -7.35990
- SMR number
- WM026-080----
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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 small rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area (28.5m NE-SW; approx. 18m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with external fosse. The bank is steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp. An ESB pole stands in the bank at ENE. There are faint traces of a wide external fosse. The perimeter has been quarried from NW-N and from E-S-SSW. A gap (Wth at top 3.2m; basal Wth 1.6m) in the bank at NNE may represent the entrance. There is no visible trace of a causeway but the fosse is barely traceable at this point. The interior has a slight E-facing slope with no visible features of significance.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.