Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Martinstown (fore By., Fore East Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Martinstown (fore By., Fore East Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69150, -7.20192
- SMR number
- WM004-030----
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 NW-facing slope of high hill with excellent views in all directions except to the SE. Only the W half of this poorly preserved ringfort survives upstanding which is bisected by a field fence running NW-SE. No visible remains of enclosing element of monument on E side of field fence and no cropmark of enclosing element visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A second field boundary running E-W intersects the S perimeter of the ringfort. No evidence of enclosing bank from SE-S-SW where second field intersects monument. Present remains consist of a roughly semi-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an arc or curving section of earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) only visible from SW-W-N and an external shallow fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.3m). Traces of cultivation ridges can be seen running across the interior.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.