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
- 53.41502, -7.59848
- SMR number
- WM031-082----
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 (300ft/91m OD), in pasture, with restricted views in most directions. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 27.5m NW-SE; max. 29m NE-SW) cut across the NW sector by a slightly curvilinear field boundary running approx. NE-SW. Monument described in 1979 as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank, an intervening berm and an outer scarp. The inner earth and stone bank is low and poorly preserved where it is visible from SE-S and is otherwise reduced to a scarp. An intervening berm (Wth 11m at E; Wth 16m at NE; Wth 20m at SW) is visible from NNE-E-S-SW. An outer scarp is visible from NE-E-S-W and is incorporated in a field boundary from N-NE. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and appears to be featureless. Monument is visible today as a tree-covered 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.