Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Martinstown (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Martinstown (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60663, -7.31810
- SMR number
- WM012-041----
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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 SE sloping ridge in grassland with good views from S-W. Ringfort (WM012-056---) 160m to NE. A large circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 45m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank and shallow external fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. The enclosing bank is best preserved from NE-E, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. From SE-S-WSW it has been incorporated into a field fence. The interior slopes generally from NW-SE, and contains faint traces of NE-SW running cultivation ridges. Digital Globe aerial photograph of the monument taken November 2011 indicates that enclosing bank now only survives from SSE-S-W, elsewhere it has been levelled.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 February 2018
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.