Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Piercefield, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercefield
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58988, -7.45194
- SMR number
- WM011-170----
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 grassland with townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran 80m to S. Cropmark of circular enclosure or possible ringfort visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Ringfort (WM011-095----) 100m to SSW. Large ringfort (WM011-096----) 540m to NNE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.