Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.76002, -7.33183
- SMR number
- WM001-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated atop low natural hillock 130m E of Castletown Cottage. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Present remains consist of a natural oval-shaped hillock (approx. dims. 26m E-W; 20m N-S) the base of which is revetted by a low modern dry-stone wall. The low hill has been planted with trees and has the appearance of a post-1700 designed landscape feature associated with nearby Castletown Cottage. Possibly a ringfort modified as a tree-ring in the post 1700 period.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.