Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monkstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58711, -7.26936
- SMR number
- WM012-148----
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 a low rise in grassland. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 24m) enclosed by a low earthen bank which has been levelled from WSW-N by a field drain, and there are traces of a shallow external fosse visible at NE only.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 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.