Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sraneeg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sraneeg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42686, -7.52878
- SMR number
- WM032-037----
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
Monument surveyed by ASI and described in 1977 as following; ‘This site has been destroyed. It was marked on the 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval embankment with a field fence running N-S through it. The site has been completely leveled on both sides of the field fence and all that remains is a small oval knoll with no trace of any artificial scarping or banks or fosses. The fields on both sides of the fence have been tilled and that to the E of the fence is now under barley while that to the W is under barley and cabbage. It is not now possible to say what form the site took originally but it was probably a ringfort. No features are now visible. The site was on a hill on the W slope , N of the summit of a large N-S ridge. It was overlooked on the E by higher ground but there are very extensive views to the NW, W and SW’ (ASI File 12/09/1977).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.