Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Parsonstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parsonstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58541, -7.30384
- SMR number
- WM012-141----
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 SE facing slope of a large ridge, with good views to the W. Ringfort (WM012-140---)140m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval shaped earthwork annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been levelled, with only a low scarp now visible at SSW. Barely visible cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.