Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gigginstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gigginstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59798, -7.20583
- SMR number
- WM013-024----
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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 small hillock in grassland, surrounded by higher land on all sides. Ringfort (WM013-022---) 360m to NW. The site has been substantially levelled. All that is visible now is the arc of a poorly preserved earth and stone bank with shallow external fosse, curving from NE-E-S-SW. Elsewhere the enclosing element of the monument has been levelled. No monument is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and only the curving arc of the enclosing feature is depicted on revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.