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
- 53.39865, -7.77973
- SMR number
- WM030-100----
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, c. 25m to S of the Athlone-Mullingar railway line. Site of Cloghawareschal Castle (WM030-099----) lies c. 145m to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork enclosed by a subrectangular-shaped outwork. Monument described in 1973 as a small, roughly circular-shaped earthwork enclosed by a low bank and a shallow external fosse. The earthwork is enclosed by a roughly rectangular-shaped field bank. There is an entrance at E. The interior is entirely overgrown with blackthorn and briars and is impossible to examine. 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: 09 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.