What is recorded here

Partially Hachured is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Gneevebane, County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1971 SMR record described the upstanding monument as the much disturbed remains of a bivallate rath with one intervening fosse, noting that the banks and fosse were best preserved from west to north while the original entrance way was not recognisable. A later account recorded the levelled monument as surviving only as a curving stretch of a field boundary that preserves the southwest section of the enclosing bank, which had a diameter of approximately forty metres on a north-south axis. The 1837 edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicted the site as a circular enclosure with a field boundary running northwest-southeast across the southwest quadrant.

Situated on fairly level pasture with good views in all directions. Nearby mound (WM033-060----) located 65m to the SW. All that remains of this levelled monument is a curving stretch of a field boundary which preserves the SW section of the enclosing bank of the ringfort (diam. c. 40m N-S). Depicted as a circular enclosure with a field boundary running NW-SE across the SW quadrant on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. An earlier site report from 1971 described the upstanding monument as the 'much disturbed remains of a bivallate rath with one intervening fosse. The banks and fosse are best preserved from W to N, elsewhere the perimeter has been largely removed or obscured by later banks and depressions. One of the banks crosses the site on the S side, a later bank forms a drop outside the site at E. The original entrance way is not recognisable. The site is largely overgrown with blackthorn and whitethorn' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 09 July 2013

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