Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gaybrook Demense, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaybrook Demense
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46680, -7.29047
- SMR number
- WM026-105----
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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 SE-facing slope on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM026-014----) lies c. 70m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 33.3m E-W; 32.2m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The tree-lined bank is substantial and very steep on the exterior, having a wire fence along its upper edge. There is a gap (original Wth at top 5.8m; basal Wth 2m) at SE which has been narrowed in modern times by a short bank. There is a wide shallow external fosse with no trace of a causeway. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope and has a slight, irregular-shaped depression towards the centre which is of unknown significance. Modern fences intersect the monument at E and W.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.