Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrycastle, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrycastle
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41586, -7.89442
- SMR number
- WM029-026----
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 S-facing slope, on the demesne lands of Garrycastle Old House located 200m to NNW. Possible ringfort depicted as a landscaped tree-ring on an Estate Map dating from 1820 (NLI MS 14 A 25). Not depicted on any edition of the OS maps. Levelled earthwork described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Area of monument is now occupied by a building within the Athlone Business and Technology Park, as shown on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.