Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Farnagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farnagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39294, -7.76686
- SMR number
- WM030-102----
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 in grassland 135m W of Farnagh Castle. Outline of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 31m) bisected by a later field boundary visible on Google Earth imagery taken 02/04/2013 and on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree-plantation and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Possibly the remains of a ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature. Alternatively the enclosure may represent the remains of a tree-ring of post-1700 date.
See attached image taken from Google Earth
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 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.