Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Labaun, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Labaun
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43009, -7.76551
- SMR number
- WM030-041----
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 pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a pale green cropmark of differential growth which presumably delineates a backfilled fosse. Levelled monument is visible today as the arc of a cropmark from S-W-NW on Digital Globe aerial photography. The NE half of the monument is now occupied by a modern dwelling house.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.