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
- 53.60772, -7.31549
- SMR number
- WM012-056----
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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 SE facing slope of a prominent hill in grassland, with good views of the surrounding countryside. Ringfort (WM012-041---) 160m to SW, ringfort (WM012-057---) 130m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’ with a gravel pit in the S half of the interior. This site has been levelled and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Upstanding monument described in 1975 as a sub-oval shaped area (approx. diam. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a U-shaped external fosse. The bank is fragmentary and is best preserved from NNW-E-ESE and at WSW. There is a possible entrance gap at SE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNE-SSW across the interior, which slopes gently from E-W. The perimeter and much of the interior has been quarried away, and several banks, probably related to the quarrying are visible in the interior of the monument.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 February 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.