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
- 53.43284, -7.78389
- SMR number
- WM030-032----
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 small hill, in undulating pasture, with extensive views to N, E and W and overlooked by higher ground to S. Annotated ‘Grinan Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earth and stone scarp with a steep natural slope beyond it. The scarp is well preserved from NE-E-S-W-N and is poorly preserved from N-NE. There are no indications of an external fosse or an entrance. A modern field fence runs roughly NE-WS along the outer edge of the monument at SE. The interior rises gently from the perimeter to the centre and the surface is very uneven. There is a large irregular-shaped disturbance depression occupying most of the S half. Monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.