Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Stonehousefarm, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stonehousefarm
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.35648, -7.48649
- SMR number
- WM038-028----
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 in low lying rough, wet pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS map and on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted enclosure and not as an antiquity. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 21m) defined by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is wide and low and the intervening fosse is wide and shallow. The outer bank is also quite low. There is a possible entrance at S. The interior is saucer shaped, whereby the ground slopes down from the perimeter toward the centre. There is no evidence of any structures. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.