Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Carpenterstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carpenterstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70427, -7.24205
- SMR number
- WM004-005----
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 on a natural terrace on the W side of a high steep hill with extensive views to N, SSW and W. Ringfort (WM004-006----) 175m to SSE. Levelled ringfort consisting of the barely discernible outline of an oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 46m N-S; 39m E-W) originally defined by an earthen bank (H 1m) now reduced to a scarp (H 0.2-1m) visible from S-W-N-NE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior. No other features visible. The outline of this levelled monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. (Adams 1955, 10)
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 December 2016
References
Adams, F.R.G. 1955 Some new notes on Fore. Ríocht na Mídhe I (1), 9-13.
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.