Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathduff (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathduff (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41912, -7.79378
- SMR number
- WM030-061----
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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 SE-facing slope of a large ridge running E-W, in pasture, with extensive views to S and overlooked by higher ground to N. A ringfort (WM030-060----) lies c. 180m to W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is of earth and stone and the fosse is shallow. The interior is relatively level and there is a stone-lined entrance at E. Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible of ringfort. Levelled monument is visible today as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.