Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Gneevebeg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gneevebeg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42010, -7.51202
- SMR number
- WM032-067----
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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 was levelled during land project works carried out in the 1970s. The site of the possible levelled ringfort (diam. c. 42m NNW-SSE) was inspected in 1977 and described as follows: 'On the NE end of a NE-SW ridge in good pasture land. All that now remains is a low scarp with a line of nettles at its foot visible from WNW-NW. Beyond this is a narrow and broken band of nettles in a slight depression stretching in an arc from WSW-W-N which may represent the line of the fosse. On the E side there is an irregular band of stony soil visible about halfway down the slope of the ridge which may represent the site of a bank. A modern field fence runs NW-SE past the site on the E and curves out around the foot of the ridge on the NE. The interior slopes irregularly from NW to SE' (SMR file). Ringfort (WM032-068----) located 100m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.