Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mount Temple, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount Temple
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43640, -7.78440
- SMR number
- WM030-011----
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 at the N end of a small ridge running N-S, in low-lying wet pasture, with fairly good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) defined by a steep inner scarp. There is a much lower outer scarp from W-N-NNE and a fosse from S-W. The well preserved inner scarp is higher and steeper from NW-N and from E-S. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior rises from the perimeter toward the centre and is scattered with loose stones and largely obscured by vegetation. A field bank running NE-SW intersects the perimeter at NW. There are small, disused quarry holes just outside the perimeter at N and SE. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.