Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hall, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hall
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.36549, -7.78674
- SMR number
- WM036-027----
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
Situated on a low ridge running N-S, in otherwise rough wet pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Monument described in 1977 as a large roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. 36m) defined by a steep scarp and external fosse. The site was reused as a tree ring in more recent times and both scarp and fosse have been disturbed. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior of the site is level to N and W but slopes downwards to S to E. There are no internal structures visible. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Possible ringfort reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period as part of the landscaping of the demesne of Hall House located 445m to SSE. Possibly not an antiquity but a designed landscape feature.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.