Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ringstown,streamstown (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ringstown,streamstown (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63319, -7.29844
- SMR number
- WM007-091----
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-land on SE facing slope of a steep hill. Ringfort (WM007-092----) 275m to N. Lough Derravaragh 800m to SW. A circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 50m N-S) enclosed by an almost completely levelled earthen bank (H 0.2m) from SW-N-E. A post-1837 trackway bisects the site from NW-SE. A field fence running ENE-WSW which marks the townland boundary with Streamstown intersects the site at S. A roadway running N-S , which also marks the townland boundary with Streamstown intersects the site at SE. It is likely that the enclosing element of the ringfort at S and SE extended beyond the townland boundary.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.