Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Larkinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60367, -7.35002
- SMR number
- WM012-037----
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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
Small circular shaped ringfort now levelled was situated on the W face of a high ridge with wide views over hilly grassland from S-W-N. Monument is not indicated on an edition of the OS 6-inch maps but is visible on Cambridge University aerial photograph taken in 1966 (CUCAP APE034). A modern quarry access road (originally a field fence) road marks the boundary with the townland of Down 20m to W. Described in 1984 as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 23m NNW-SSE; 23m ENE-SSW) defined by a scarp and enclosed by a shallow external fosse. There is no real trace of an enclosing bank. The external fosse is visible from NNW-NNE and from SE-SSW. The interior slopes from NE-SW and a shallow depression is visible in the SW quadrant, probably the result of disturbance. A field fence intersects the E side of the monument. Monument appears to have been levelled and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 February 2018
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.