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Ringfort - unclassified

Cumminstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Cumminstown, 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
Cumminstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59438, -7.52758
SMR number
WM011-042----

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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

Situated on NE facing slope of low rise in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular shaped enclosure with trees in the interior and annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS maps. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Visible as a circular shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 35m E-W) on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 16 June 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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