Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bawnoges, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnoges
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39388, -7.68636
- SMR number
- WM030-115----
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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 low-lying rough, wet pasture with restricted views. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a large roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is low and faint and is best preserved from SW-W-NW and is almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The fosse is best preserved from WSW-W-NW and is wide and shallow from NNE-E-ESE, narrowing from ESE-SSE. The fosse is absent from S-SW and from N-NNE. The perimeter has been defaced in a number of places by livestock. There no sign of an entrance. The interior has a very slight S-facing slope and the surface is slightly irregular, having no discernible features. An old field drain runs from the perimeter at SSE toward a field fence running NE-SW a short distance to SE. The Westmeath/Offaly County boundary runs NW-SE a short distance to SW. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 10 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.