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Ringfort - unclassified

Conlanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Conlanstown, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Conlanstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.58852, -7.54888
SMR number
WM010-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Depicted as a circular enclosure with trees on perimeter on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map, annotated ‘Rathmore’, with a gravel pit outside bank at SE. Depicted as a circular-shaped monument with roadway running SE from SE edge of monument. Possible ringfort re-used as a tree-ring in the post 1700 period. Conlanstown House located 445m to NW. Present remains consist of an elongated oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 33m NNW-SSE; 19m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. The bank is fragmentary, and there is a possible entrance gap (Wth 1.1m) at NNW. Just inside the bank in the E quadrant of the interior are four large stone slabs, two set on edge side by side, and one lying flat with the fourth lying against it. To the E of the centre is another large grass-covered slab. There are several tree trunks in the interior, possibly as the result of the site being reused as a tree ring. There is a large depression at the ESE side of the monument, probably the result of quarrying.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 June 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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