Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banagher, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49464, -7.18331
- SMR number
- WM027-013----
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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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, overlooked by higher ground from E-S-W. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small irregular D-shaped enclosure with its straight side against a canal embankment running E-W and annotated ‘Fort’. Possibly bisected during construction of the Royal Canal. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map where the monument appears to have been levelled to facilitate construction of the Midland Great Western Railway running ENE-WSW to the immediate S of the canal. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. The monument which lies on the S side of the Royal Canal has been destroyed by a railway line running E-W.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.