Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Addinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Addinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Coordinates
- 53.60945, -7.00609
- SMR number
- WM014-012----
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 top of a low hill with good views of the surrounding countryside, Addinstown House located 190m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure with a rectangular ruin in the interior annotated ‘fort’ and ‘ruins’. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the enclosure is depicted standing inside a square-shaped tree plantation of post-1700 date. A trig. point in the SW quadrant of the monument marks the height 301 ft. No surface remains visible of levelled monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.