Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Gartlandstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gartlandstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61740, -7.27204
- SMR number
- WM012-012----
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
Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval shaped enclosure annotated ‘fort’. Ringfort (WM012-011----) 400m to NW. Earthwork (WM012-013---) 250m to SSW. Situated on a prominent hillock in undulating grassland. No surface remains visible of this levelled monument. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.