Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ringstown,milltown (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ringstown,milltown (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63670, -7.30221
- SMR number
- WM007-090----
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 in pasture on SE facing slope of rising ground with ringfort (WM007-092----) 160m to ESE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp and external fosse visible from SE-S-W-N. Ringfort intersected by a field fence and drain from N-E-SE which forms townland boundary with Milltown.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.