Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Robinstown (delvin By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robinstown (delvin By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63103, -7.19753
- SMR number
- WM008-086----
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 top of a prominent hillock in undulating countryside. Ringfort (WM008-086----) 340m to NW. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. The bank is best preserved from NNE-E and levelled elsewhere. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running ENE-WSW across the interior of the monument. There is a large quarry hole outside the bank at NW.
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 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.