Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Attimurtagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Attimurtagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37509, -7.74944
- SMR number
- WM036-043----
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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 near the end of a low ridge, in rough pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which is open to SE. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 58m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank reduced to a scarp. A low bank is visible from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW and a low scarp from NE-E-SE and from SW-W-NW. The interior is quite uneven, rising irregularly towards the centre. Monument described in 1977 as levelled and traceable by a band of differential growth which presumably represents a backfilled fosse. Outlined of levelled monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.