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
- 53.61226, -7.27682
- SMR number
- WM012-014----
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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 SW facing slope of hillock in undulating grassland with good views of Lough Derravaragh to NW. Gartlandstown House lies 390m to N. Ringfort (WM012-010----) 400m to SW, earthwork (WM012-013----) 340m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small roughly circular-shaped enclosure planted with trees, annotated as a ‘fort’. Described in 1972 as a monument that has been almost completely levelled. All that survived are the poorly preserved remains of a raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 29m E-W) which marks the site of the levelled 'fort'. No surface remains visible of monument on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.