Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monkstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58483, -7.26206
- SMR number
- WM012-158----
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 ridge in undulating grassland with good views all around. Ringfort (WM012-157---) 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’ with a gravel pit immediately to SW and limekiln to N. Poorly preserved monument consisting of a curve in the field fence from SW-W-NW which preserves the enclosing bank of the levelled ringfort.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.