Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonashammer, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonashammer
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72592, -7.23638
- SMR number
- WM004-003----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland, 35m W of the townland boundary with Annagh. Depicted as a roughly D-shaped or sub-triangular shaped area (approx. dims. 28m N-S x 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse which is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.