Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crossanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47351, -7.17123
- SMR number
- WM027-055----
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 top of a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture and tillage, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped tree-planted earthwork (approx. dims 51m NW-SE; 41.5m NE-SW). Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area defined by a high steep-sided scarp, the remains of an intervening fosse, an outer bank and an outer fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. The site has almost been defaced beyond recognition by a complex series of quarry holes and is completely overgrown with thorn trees. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.