Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Riverstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Riverstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49066, -7.16058
- SMR number
- WM027-043----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described as a small circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a tree-lined steep scarp with faint traces of a wide external fosse. The scarp may have been steepened when the trees were planted. The perimeter is disturbed in several places by livestock and tree roots. The original entrance is not recognisable, although there is a large gap at SE. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.