Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laragh (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laragh (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41932, -7.60328
- SMR number
- WM031-081----
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 (360ft/110m OD), in pasture, with good views of Knockastia to N. Overlooking ringfort (WM031-080----) which lies c. 55m to NW. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork cut across the E sector by a post-1700 field boundary running NNW-SSE. Monument described in 1977 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 32m N-S; approx. 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank. The bank is higher from WSW-W-NW-N-NE than elsewhere. The field fence shown on the 1913 OS map has been removed recently and the whole perimeter is disturbed across the E sector and the material pushed to the edge of the site on the S where another field fence runs roughly E-W past the site. There is also a small mound of earth and stones just inside the perimeter at S. A public road runs roughly NW-SE past the site a short distance to SW. There is no indication of an original entrance. Monument is visible today as a roughly C-shaped, tree and hedge-lined earthwork 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.