Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Littletown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littletown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.51807, -7.85544
- SMR number
- WM015-014----
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 slight natural rise in gently undulating grassland on the demesne lands of Littletown House standing 120m to S. Remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 24m NE-SW) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank and a very slight narrow fosse. The interior is level. It appears to have been used as a tree-ring in the past. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. May be the remains of a tree-ring of post-1700 date associated with landscaping of the demesne of Littletown House.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.