Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullaghanmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghanmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40650, -7.51911
- SMR number
- WM032-090----
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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
Described in 1977, as a poorly preserved ringfort situated on a small hillock, with good views to the SW. The site has been largely destroyed and consists of a roughly oval-shaped area (diam. c. 36m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank only visible from the NE-E-SE where it is incorporated into a modern field fence that acts as the townland boundary. There are traces of a possible shallow outer fosse with an external earth and stone bank which are both difficult to identify due to livestock poaching and dense cover of vegetation at time of inspection. The inner bank is quite substantial where it survives with evidence of internal facing consisting of large boulders set on edge. The external face of the bank has a relatively modern drystone wall built against it. The interior is uneven and slopes slightly from W to E. No visible entrance feature.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 28 March 2013
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.