Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farthingstown (fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farthingstown (fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dooneen Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dooneen Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.39355, -7.29804
- SMR number
- WM033-070----
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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
On top of a small prominent hillock, 50m N of bogland with good views to S of Croghan Hill, Co. Offaly. Large raised circular area (diam. 50m N-S; 53m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp, a wide fosse and substantial external bank best preserved from S-W-N. There are the remains of a second fosse outside this bank. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.8m) at N. A low platform (dims. 7m SSE-NNW x 7m SSW-ENE) in the W quadrant of the ringfort interior could be the remains of a possible rectangular hut site although this is not certain. The banks and fosse of the ringfort are covered in trees and bushes making detailed examination impossible.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.