Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughanstown (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanstown (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58297, -7.35533
- SMR number
- WM012-104----
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
Situated on E facing slope of a gentle rise in grassland. Ringfort (WM012-117---) 200m to E. This site has been substantially levelled. Now visible as a circular platform (approx. diam. 36m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by a low scarp visible from NE-S and from NNW-NW. The perimeter of the site has levelled from SW-NW. A roadway intersects the perimeter of the monument at N. The interior slopes slightly from W-E. This levelled site is visible as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.