Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cummerstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummerstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65631, -7.16248
- SMR number
- WM008-120----
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
In grassland, 140m W of ringfort (WM008-037----) and 160m N of the N shoreline of Lough Adeel. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork with possible wall footings of a building on top that is visible on ASI aerial photograph taken 19/12/2004.
See attached ASI aerial photograph
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 May 2023
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.