Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sraneeg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sraneeg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured, Rathbane
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured, Rathbane
- Coordinates
- 53.42727, -7.54116
- SMR number
- WM031-072----
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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 an irregular-shaped rise (300ft/91m OD) in undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM031-071----) conjoined to SW. Annotated 'Forts' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as one of a pair of conjoined oval-shaped earthworks. Annotated ‘Rathbane’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork with a small rectangular-shaped structure (WM031-071001-) in NE quadrant. Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled ringfort is visible today as a small hillock with vague traces of a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.