Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Teernacreeve, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teernacreeve
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39693, -7.47570
- SMR number
- WM032-106----
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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 ringfort on good pastureland, situated on a small hillock, just below the summit on the E facing slope of rising ground. The site consists of a roughly circular area (diam. 56m N-S; 53m E-W) defined by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank best preserved from W to NW with a shallow outer fosse which is best preserved at NW and not visible from N to E. The inner bank is lower in height in the S and is very faint from NE to E. There is a short stretch of a counterscarp bank at SE, but this is not visible elsewhere. There is a gap on the E which probably represents the original entrance feature and a later smaller gap on the N. The interior slopes from NW to SE and no features are visible.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 28 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.