Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cummerstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummerstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65970, -7.15985
- SMR number
- WM008-031----
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 slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land, with good views from NE-E-S-SW. Ringfort (WM008-037----) 400m to S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 48m N-S; 47m E-W), the E side of the monument intersected by a laneway running N-S. This monument has been almost completely levelled, with only a tree-lined scarp visible from W-NW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 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.