Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement platform
Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rochfort Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47469, -7.37443
- SMR number
- WM026-115----
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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
A cluster of rock platforms were identified by Karkov & Ruffing (1990-1, 108-110), on the E shoreline of Rochfort Bay on Lough Ennell. The site would originally have been located c. 10m from original shoreline. Listed as Rochfort Demesne 1 and described by O'Sullivan (2004, 95) as 'a small, irregular rock platform (dims. 18m N-S x 16m E-W; H 1m), possibly a natural bedrock outcrop that has been enhanced or enlarged. It has an even profile, with large slabs exposed along the water edge. There are large angular limestone blocks lying on the surface. This site is a possible prehistoric or medieval rock platform, potentially associated with the early medieval crannóga (WM026-114----; WM026-109----) at Goose Islands. The nearest archaeological site is the crannóg at Goose Island (WM026-109----), 220m to west, a
mound at Rochfort Demesne (WM026-048----), 350m to southeast.'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 February 2017
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2004 The social and ideological roles of crannogs in early medieval Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of History, NUI Maynooth.
Karkov, C. and Ruffing, J. 1990-1 The crannógs of Lough Ennell: A computer survey. Ríocht na Midhe, 8, 3, 105-113.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.