Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gartlandstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gartlandstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61832, -7.27853
- SMR number
- WM012-011----
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 a low rise in gently undulating grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. Earthwork (WM012-007----) 100m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-rectilinear shaped enclosure in the SE corner of a field, annotated ‘fort’ with a gravel pit in the SW quadrant. On this map the enclosing bank was depicted as upstanding from SW-W-N-NNE, elsewhere it was intersected by a field boundary from NE-E-S-SW. This site has been almost completely levelled. Originally it consisted of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank from SW-W-N-NE, and a shallow external fosse. The bank has been modified to form a field fence, and elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.