Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Magheramore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheramore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40396, -7.78588
- SMR number
- WM030-094----
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 rise (314ft /96m OD), in gently undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM030-095----) lies c. 130m to ENE. Annotated 'Fort' n the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly pentagonal-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 32m N-S) enclosed by a bank and a field wall. A low bank of earth and stone is visible from SE-S-SW-W-N and a gently curving field wall encloses the monument from N-E-S-SE. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and some small boulders project from the surface. There is a sharp drop in ground level on the exterior of the monument at E. Levelled ringfort is visible today as a curvilinear cropmark from SE-S-SW-WNW and is define by field boundaries elsewhere, on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.