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
- 53.65563, -7.15981
- SMR number
- WM008-037----
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 rise in well drained undulating pasture-land with good views of the surrounding countryside. Lough Adeel 150m to SE. A sub-triangular shaped area (dims. 44m N-S x 42.4m E-W) enclosed by two low earth and stone banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank is narrow, visible only from N-NE & from ESE-S-WSW, with a wide berm (max. Wth 3m) at S. The outer bank is visible from E-S-W. The interior rises slightly towards the centre, and has several slight humps and hollows of unknown significance.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.