Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banagher, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49161, -7.18908
- SMR number
- WM027-032----
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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 top of a slight rise at the W foot of a hillock, in wet pasture. A souterrain (WM027-031----) lies c. 100m to NW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a cropmark which is visible as an oval-shaped area (dims. 42m E-W; 35.6m N-S) of light-green grass defined by dark-green grass. There is another patch of differential growth within the centre of the light-green area. There are small heaps of stones on the edge of the monument at NW. The cropmark of the monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.